"Future happened…" Anachronism and evocative iconographic sources in Fontana

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https://doi.org/10.54103/2974-6620/uon.n19-20_2022_pp26-38

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Lucio Fontana, Pio Emanuelli, Carla Lonzi, Astronomic Photography, Iconography of Spatialism, Art and Science, XX c. Italian Art

Abstract

Beyond triumphalism and ostentation of artistic innovation, Lucio Fontana in 1965 – as well as Carla Lonzi proposed in Autoritratto, a portrait just apparently colloquial and wandering – is a pioneer who still lives the results of his artistic research in astonishment and aware of their influences on younger artists.
This essay proposed a series of visual sources of archaic and cosmic origin, wisely re-elaborated by Fontana during his career.

F.G. Pease, Nebulosa spirale in “Corvus”, 3 maggio 1916, Mount Wilson, Ca. (da P. Emanuelli, Il cielo e le sue meraviglie, Milano, Ulrico Hoepli, 1934, tav. 135)

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13-12-2022

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Zanchetti, G. (2022). "Future happened…" Anachronism and evocative iconographic sources in Fontana. L’uomo Nero. Materiali Per Una Storia Delle Arti Della Modernità, 19(19-20), 26–38. https://doi.org/10.54103/2974-6620/uon.n19-20_2022_pp26-38

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Vol. 19 No. 19-20 (2022): An Anthology

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Copyright (c) 2022 Giorgio Zanchetti; for Lucio Fontana's works: Fondazione Lucio Fontana, by Siae

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