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Uninhabited Kingdoms, New Worlds of Space

The third chapter asks how these developments informed the making of American art in the immediate postwar years. The first section attends to contemporary announcements that modernism had reached a formal impasse. Drawing on a number of unpublished lectures on space and the Italian painter Corrado Cagli, the second section reveals Olson to have imagined a ‘spatial modernism’ that sought to solve the problem of a formal ne plus ultra whilst actively imagining a more ‘modest’ postwar ethic. In following sections this new spatial ethic and aesthetic is shown not to have been unique to Olson but to have informed contemporary projects by Pollock, Newman, the sculptor David Smith, and Cage.