This book examines the Art Informel movement in painting as manifest in late-1950s Germany, making a key contribution to research into this nonrepresentational style of art.
The focus here is on the artists Peter Brüning, Karl Fred Dahmen, Winfred Gaul, Karl Otto Götz, Gerhard Hoehme and Fred Thieler. Previous interpretations of German Art Informel are called into question and reassessed, putting into perspective the often-postulated differences between the art of the 1950s and 60s. In addition to the breakdown of genre-specific classifications in painting, this period witnessed changing attitudes toward content, form, pictorial space and subjectivity. The later »exit from the picture,« the concrete realism of Pop Art, postmodern objectification, and the »open artwork « proclaimed by Umberto Eco – these and other tendencies are already heralded by the informal painting of the 1950s.

Authors: Nicola Carola Heuwinkel

Hardcover
16,5 x 24 cm
376 pages
106 color ills.
German
available
ISBN 978-3-86828-164-4
36 Euro
2010