Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, March 13, 2009 - January 17, 2010. Text by Petra Lange-Berndt and Dietmar Rübel. "The exhibition 'Sigmar Polke. We Petty Bourgeois! Comrades and Contemporaries' was a first glimpse at the production of the artist during the 1970s previously overlooked by art history. Shown in a series of consecutive, complementary parts at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the exhibition placed Polke's work and that of his colleagues and companions such as Achim Duchow, Katharina Sieverding, or Martin Kippenberger in a number of different, constantly-changing contexts. This curatorial concept of a growing, procedural exhibition is documented by this publication." -- publisher's statement.