Blinky Palermo: Abstraction of an Era

by Christine Mehring

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Twenty-one-year-old Peter Heisterkamp began signing his colorful and playful abstract artworks Palermo in 1964, when peers noted his resemblance to the American gangster Frank “Blinky” Palermo. This handsome book—a historical and critical study of Palermo’s painting from the time he entered Joseph Beuys’s now famous class at the Düsseldorf academy in 1964 to his death in 1977—explores his significance for postwar and abstract art.

 

Christine Mehring notes that over the course of Palermo’s brief career he created five concurrent but distinct bodies of work: objects, cloth-pictures, wall-paintings, metal-pictures, and collaborative projects, primarily with his friend and colleague Gerhard...

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  • ISBN10 0300122381
  • ISBN13 9780300122381
  • Publish Date 28 November 2008
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 5 May 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English