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Kitaj is a complex and controversial artist who is one of the most important figural painters of the late 20th century. This monograph is the result of a close collaboration between artist and author and includes a review of Kitaj's work.
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 4th ed., rev. and expanded. |
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Kitaj is a complex and controversial artist who is one of the most important figural painters of the late 20th century. This monograph is the result of a close collaboration between artist and author and includes a review of Kitaj's work. "R. B. Kitaj is recognized as a modern master whose powerful, controversial and highly personal paintings, pastels, and drawings reflect his 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 definitive and much-praised monograph on Kitaj, based on an extraordinary series of interviews and letters between the artist and the author, provides full documentation of Kitaj's life and work. The artist himself participated actively in the original conception of the book, and many of the articulate and revealing 'prefaces' he wrote about his own paintings are also included here. For this fourth and final edition, the author has written a new chapter surveying Kitaj's work form 1999 to 2007, an extremely productive period following the tragic death of his wife, the artist Sandra Fisher, and his return to the United States. The text is complemented by an expanded and generously illustrated section of works spanning Kitaj's entire career, as well as a number of additional prefaces written by artist. The bibliography has been updated and the catalogue of works completed, and many illustrations that were black and white in earlier editions are now reproduced in full colour. The result is the world's most authoritative monograph on one of modern art's outstanding talents."--book jacket. |
| Item Description: | First published as R. B. Kitaj, 1985. |
| Carrier Form: | 287 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-264) and indexes. |
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9780714857510 0714857513 9780714868554 0714868558 |
| Index Number: | N6537 |
| CLC: | J205.712 |
| Call Number: | J205.712/L788/4th ed. |
| Contents: | A secret life: The art of R.B. Kitaj. Introduction. 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 final act -- Plates -- Prefaces / R.B. Kitaj -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Catalogue of works. |