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 D sseldorf academy in 1964 to his death in 1977--explores his significance for postwar and abstract art. Christine...