Catalogue of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from January 23-April 14, 2019.
"Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold" : January 23-April 14, 2019, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States.
HMSG copy purchased with funds from the Arts Libraries Endowment.
Contents:
Fontana's odyssey / Iria Candela -- The juggler: Fontana's art under Italian fascism / Emily Braun -- The war years: Fontana in Argentina / Andrea Giunta -- Not an Against but a For: Fontana and European art, 1967-1968 / Anthony White -- The Latin axis in the twentieth-century avant-garde / Enrico Crispolti -- Looking through the glass, and what Fontana found there / Pia Gottschaller
Summary:
"A major figure of postwar European art and a binational resident of Argentina and Italy, Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) blurred numerous boundaries in his life and art, crossing borders both literally and figuratively. This volume takes a fresh look at the renowned artist whose simultaneous innovations in painting, drawing, ceramics, and sculpture, as well as his spatial explorations, pushed the painterly into the sculptural and redefined the relationship between the arts." -- Publisher's description
