Martin Kippenberger / Frauen
KIPPENBERGER Martin (Dortmund 1953 - Vienna 1997), Berlin, Merve Verlag, 1980, 17x12 cm., paperback [softcover], pp. [112], typographic cover, artist’s book illustrated with tens of black and white images. Edition of 1500 copies, exemplar with some unglued pages. [Bibliography: Koch 2002: page 46; Roth - Aarons - Lehmann 2017: pages 64 and 68; Röder 2002: page 38].
KIPPENBERGER Martin (Dortmund 1953 - Vienna 1997), Berlin, Merve Verlag, 1980, 17x12 cm., paperback [softcover], pp. [112], typographic cover, artist’s book illustrated with tens of black and white images. Edition of 1500 copies, exemplar with some unglued pages. [Bibliography: Koch 2002: page 46; Roth - Aarons - Lehmann 2017: pages 64 and 68; Röder 2002: page 38].
KIPPENBERGER Martin (Dortmund 1953 - Vienna 1997), Berlin, Merve Verlag, 1980, 17x12 cm., paperback [softcover], pp. [112], typographic cover, artist’s book illustrated with tens of black and white images. Edition of 1500 copies, exemplar with some unglued pages. [Bibliography: Koch 2002: page 46; Roth - Aarons - Lehmann 2017: pages 64 and 68; Röder 2002: page 38].
“The artist book with 114 uncommentated reproductions of portraits of women (some with the author) is not typical of the Berlin-based Merve Verlag publishing programme, which normally focuses on theoretical texts. There is no text whatsoever. In order to reduce the number of words on the cover, Kippenberger even dropped his own first name. At the request of the author, the otherwise obligatory brief biographical outline of the author and the list of available publications on the inside covers were also replaced by pictures. Kippenberger left it to the printer to decide the order of illustrations.” Koch 2002
