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MARTIN KIPPENBERGER - CHRIS REITZ GEBUNDEN

An illuminating study of the work of artist Martin Kippenberger  whose art expressed the
enthusiasms and frustrations of the West German middle class. Martin Kippenberger: Everything
Is Everywhere is the first scholarly monograph in English on West German artist Martin
Kippenberger (1953–1997)  one of the most prominent German artists of the 1980s. In this book 
Chris Reitz shows that the condition of Kippenberger’s art was an endless  enthusiastic
searching  constrained by the impossibility of fulfillment. A child during West Germany’s
Wirtschaftswunder  the economic miracle of the 1950s and 1960s  and a young adult during the
economic recession and political tumult of the 1970s  Kippenberger belonged to the first truly
postwar generation. But  largely uninterested in the legacy of National Socialism that had
occupied his predecessors  Kippenberger instead pursued a hyperproductive artistic practice
that reflected the dreams and fears of the ascendent 1980s West German middle class.
Kippenberger’s ambitions took him everywhere: he founded a museum in Greece  invested in a
fashion business and a restaurant  and even bought a gas station in Brazil. He made art in a
dizzying range of genres  from paintings to poetry  from posters to stickers. He made art out
of his appetites  too  producing art on the theme of his own alcoholism. Intensely
entrepreneurial  Kippenberger carried out an artistic practice in which his diverse endeavors 
and the people who joined him in them  were all connected in a sprawling network. Reitz deftly
presents Kippenberger’s career as an allegory of the neoliberal networks of capital  technology
and culture that spanned Europe and America in the 1980s.

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