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A type of “writing” named for this concept titles a Man Ray photograph in which his signature appears in penlight over a self-portrait, often called the first light painting. The “White Manifesto” prefigured a movement named for this concept that was led by the canvas-slashing Italian painter Lucio Fontana. This concept and “light” (-5[1])provide an alternate title for the “Light Prop for an Electric Stage,” a rotating kinetic “modulator” by László Moholy-Nagy (“LOSS-low MOH-ho-lee-NAHJ”). This is the last word in the title of a sculpture of the “Development of a Bottle” and of another sculpture by the same artist that depicts a body in motion; that bronze Futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni is titled for (10[1])“Unique Forms of Continuity in” this concept. (10[2])For 10 points, empty parts of a canvas are called what concept’s “negative” form? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: space [or word forms like spatial; accept spazio; accept Space Writing or Spatialism or Spazialismo; accept Light-Space Modulator; accept Development of a Bottle in Space or Bird in Space; accept negative space]
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