Lucio Fontana: Between Utopia and Kitsch by Anthony White
MIT Press (Footprint Books), $29.95 hb, 338 pp
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Throw the name Lucio Fontana into any dinner table discussion about twentieth-century art, and chances are the first comment thrown back will be, ‘He’s the Italian guy who slashed his canvases.’ He certainly was. But there is much more to him than that, as this exquisitely produced and exhaustively researched book by Anthony White shows.
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