Date of Award
Fall 12-18-2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Emily Braun
Second Advisor
Maria Antonella Pelizzari
Academic Program Adviser
Maria Antonella Pelizzari
Abstract
This thesis examines how science shaped Giacomo Balla’s pioneering style of abstraction. A reconsideration of his oeuvre from 1900 to the advent of Italian Futurism demonstrates that his artistic vision of light—indebted to popular scientific imagery and what might be called "prosthetic" visual technologies—anticipated the emergent Futurist aesthetics.
Recommended Citation
Mahler, Luise, "Una sensibilità scientifica: Giacomo Balla’s Painting of Light, 1900-1914" (2017). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/263