The first volume of the series »Schriften der Forschungsstelle Informelle Kunst« (Publications of the Research Center for Informal Art) documents the results of the first »Research Colloquium Informal Art«. The contributions of young academics cover a broad spectrum of relevant topics of contemporary research. These include discussions of individual artists and artist groups and their national and international connections, (interdisciplinary) questions from the fields of visual studies, exhibition, reception and impact history, as well as transnational comparative and cultural-political perspectives.

First Volume of the Publications of the Research Center for Informal Art
Informal Art, History of concepts & reception
Young academics

Autorentext
Hrsg. Leiter der Forschungsst. Informelle Kunst, Prof. Uni Bonn, Kunstgeschichte

Zusammenfassung

Informel was the central artistic innovation in the art oft he 1950s and still remains influential today. The Research Center for Art Informel, which is dedicated to intensifying the rather sparse research in the area in recent years, has been part oft he Department of Art History oft he University of Bonn since 2019. A series of publications by the research center starting in 2022 documents ist projects and will provide an innovative contribution to research on Art Informel a global and transdisciplinary perspective. Current research contributionsin the form of both collections of essays and monographswill thus primarily be published, along with important foreign-language source texts on Art Informel redacted in German translation.