Kitaj / Marco Livingstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Livingstone, Marco.

Contributor:

Kitaj, R. B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kitaj, R. B--Criticism and interpretation.

Kitaj, R. B.

Graphic arts.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Phaidon, 1999.

Summary:

R B Kitaj (b. 1932) 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.

In the third edition of his definitive and much praised monograph on the artist, Marco Livingstone has updated his text to include a survey of Kitaj's work in the 1990s. A new section of 20 illustrations of recent works has been added, and almost all the illustrations that were in black-and-white in earlier editions are now reproduced in full colour. Kitaj himself completes the new edition with an outspoken account of his now famous confrontation with the critics of his 1994 retrospective exhibition, and the subsequent death of his wife, Sandra.

With its fresh account of an important and turbulent phase in Kitaj's life and work, this new edition will be an indispensable addition to the literature for all admirers of the artist.

Contents:

As a Young Man 8

Certain Forms of Association 11

An American in England 18

The Age of Mechanical Reproduction 20

Unsettled Years 24

In Our Time 25

Towards a Better Life 28

The World's Body 31

A Confessional Art 38

The Last of England 47

The Plates 55.

Notes:

Previous ed.: 1992.

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

ISBN:

0714838918

OCLC:

41925785