Die Erfindung der Neuen Wilden. Malerei und Subkultur um 1980 / The Invention of the Neue Wilde. Painting and Subculture around 1980

A cultural history of the 1980s Neue Wilde painters, from Kippenberger to Penck This fresh perspective on the German painting movement of the late '70s and early '80s explores the community of artists such as Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen, drawing on forgotten photographic and documentary material as well as artists' posters, records, newspapers, video works and artists' books to give a social context for the Neue Wilde.