Stephen Petersen, Refiguring Modernism Series, Penn State Press, 2009

In the wake of World War II, fantasies (and growing realities) of space travel fascinated artists of the European avant-garde, who were themselves exploring new forms and new media. This book focuses on the Spatial Art of Lucio Fontana, the Interplanetary Art of Enrico Baj, Yves Klein's "painting of space," and the Zero Group's forays into light-and-space art, all viewed in relation to popular science and science fiction of the postwar decades.