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MIT Press
11 July 2023
The Arts: General & Reference
An illuminating study of the work of artist Martin Kippenberger, whose art expressed the enthusiasms and frustrations of the West German middle class.

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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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 203mm, 
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9780262545013
ISBN 10:   0262545012
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Chris Reitz is Assistant Professor of Critical and Curatorial Studies and Gallery Director at the University of Louisville's Hite Institute of Art and Design. His writing has appeared in October, nonsite.org, Texte zur Kunst, The Baffler, TANK, Paper Monument, and N+1.

Reviews for Martin Kippenberger

"“This is a major shift in the critical discourse around Kippenberger and a generational break from interpretive paradigms developed by those who were close to the artist.” —Texte zur Kunst ""With admirable nuance, Chris Reitz traces the many ‘enthusiasms' that motivated Martin Kippenberger to comment acerbically on (West) German middle-class culture and frustrated consumer desire from the postwar to the post-Wall era."" —Gregory H. Williams, Associate Professor, Boston University"


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