Maas, Erich and Delano Greenidge. BLINKY PALERMO, 1943 - 1977. 160 pp. include 106 full-page color plates. Folio, cloth. New York, Greenidge, 1989.

Kuper, Susanne, Ulrike Groos and Vanessa Joan Muller (editors) et al. PALERMO. 232 pp., illustrated throughout in color and b&w. 4to, wraps. Cologne, Dumont Verlag, 2007.
A comprehensive presentation of Palermo's short career (he died at age 33), including cloth pictures, metal paintings, objects, and drawings, some of which have not been publicly exhibited before. Exhibition at the Kunsthalle Duddeldorf and the Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen.

Mehring, Christine. BLINKY PALERMO: Abstraction of an Era. xi and 298 pages, 64 color and 99 b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2008.
A historical and critical study of Palermo's painting - from the time he entered Joseph Beuys's now famous class at the Düsseldorf academy in 1964 to his death in 1977 - that explores his significance for postwar and abstract art.

Cooke, Lynne, and Karen Kelly, with Barbara Schroeder (editors) et al. BLINKY PALERMO: To the People of New York City. 208 pages, roughly 100 color and 30 b&w plates. 4to, boards. New York, Dia Art Foundation, and Dusseldorf, Richter Verlag, 2009.

Cooke, Lynne, Karen Kelly, and Barabara Schroder (editors) et al. BLINKY PALERMO: Retrospective 1964-1977. 204 pages, illustrated throughout, mostly in color. 4to, cloth. New York, Dia Art Foundation in association with New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2010.
Exhibition in Los Angeles, Washington, and New York.