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By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Phaidon Press, ©1999.Edition: 3rd ed. (rev. and expanded)Description: 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 0714838918
  • 9780714838915
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • N6537.K53 L58 1999
Contents:
As a Young Man -- Certain Forms of Association -- An American in England -- The Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- Unsettled Years -- In Our Time -- Towards a Better Life -- The World's Body -- A Confessional Art -- The Last of England -- The Plates -- Prefaces / R B Kitaj.
Review: "R. B. Kitaj is recognized as a modern master whose powerful, controversial and highly personal paintings, pastels and drawings reflect his unfashionable commitment to the human figure as a subject, and his complex involvement with the art of the past, with political and social issues, and with his own Jewish identity." "Marco Livingstone's monograph on Kitaj is based on a series of interviews and letters between the artist and the author, and provides full and up-to-date documentation of Kitaj's life and work. The artist himself has participated actively in the design of the book, and has written for it a series of articulate and revealing 'prefaces' to his own paintings." "For this expanded third edition, the author has written a new chapter surveying Kitaj's work in the 1990s, a tragic period dominated by his now famous confrontation with the critics of his 1994 retrospective exhibition, the subsequent death of his wife the artist Sandra Fisher, and his eventual return to the United States. This text is complemented by a new plate section illustrating 22 recent works, and three additional 'prefaces' written by the artist."--Jacket.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General N 6537 KIT LIV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0000786

Revised edition of: R.B. Kitaj. Rev. & expanded pbk. ed. 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-208) and indexes.

As a Young Man -- Certain Forms of Association -- An American in England -- The Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- Unsettled Years -- In Our Time -- Towards a Better Life -- The World's Body -- A Confessional Art -- The Last of England -- The Plates -- Prefaces / R B Kitaj.

"R. B. Kitaj is recognized as a modern master whose powerful, controversial and highly personal paintings, pastels and drawings reflect his unfashionable commitment to the human figure as a subject, and his complex involvement with the art of the past, with political and social issues, and with his own Jewish identity." "Marco Livingstone's monograph on Kitaj is based on a series of interviews and letters between the artist and the author, and provides full and up-to-date documentation of Kitaj's life and work. The artist himself has participated actively in the design of the book, and has written for it a series of articulate and revealing 'prefaces' to his own paintings." "For this expanded third edition, the author has written a new chapter surveying Kitaj's work in the 1990s, a tragic period dominated by his now famous confrontation with the critics of his 1994 retrospective exhibition, the subsequent death of his wife the artist Sandra Fisher, and his eventual return to the United States. This text is complemented by a new plate section illustrating 22 recent works, and three additional 'prefaces' written by the artist."--Jacket.

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