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Martin Kippenberger - Martin Kippenberger: 80 Unique Books (Ein Meter Unterhaltungs- und ernsthafte Litaratur DM 981,80) (für Parkett 19). KIPPENBERGER, MARTIN 1953 DORTMUND - 1997 VIENNA Title: 80 Unique Books (one meter of entertaining and serious literature DM 981,80) (for Parkett 19). Subtitle: Special edition. Date: 1989. Technique: Book, 260-pages, laid in Parkett-edition. Measurement: 15,5 x 9,5 x 1cm. Notation: Signed, dated and numbered. Publisher: Parkett-Verlag, Zurich (publisher). Number: 1/1. Condition: The work is in very good condition. Each work of this edition is one of 80 unique books. With Parkett magazine. ”In Kippenberger's work visual subjects follow an order which is that of the dehierarchized way of reading the world that distinguishes the masses who have not been thoroughly cultivated from the masses who have; such as can be seen, for instance, in the anti-bourgeois order of values and importance found in tabloid newspapers and other subcultural or pop-cultural sites, where sense (and the power that feeds parasitically off it) plays no part in determining the order of priority of meaning.” Diedrich Diederichsen, Parkett no. 19, 1989. Article on work and artist from Parkett edition no. 19 . Explanations to the Catalogue