R.B. Kitaj: Obsessions, 1932-2007

R. B. Kitaj

ISBN 10: 3866787316 / ISBN 13: 9783866787315

Published by Kerber Verlag, Germany, 2012

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Product details

Publisher: Kerber Verlag
Publication date: 2012
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Print length: 264 pages
ISBN-10: 3866787316
ISBN-13: 9783866787315
Item Weight: 3.46 pounds
Dimensions: 8.9 x 1 x 12.4 inches.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: R.B. Kitaj: Obsessions, 1932-2007
• Publisher: Kerber Verlag, Germany
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3866787316
• ISBN 13: 9783866787315
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Cleveland, Ohio-born painter R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007) lived and worked in London, England from 1959 to 1997, where he pioneered a new type of figurative art in the 60s with his artist friends Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff, all of whom would find themselves dubbed the “London School.” Kitaj’s art mixed modernist allusions to literature, art history and Jewish history with a tremendous feeling for figuration and color that owed much to the elegant contours and palette of Degas. In the mid-70s, Kitaj positioned himself as a Jewish artist, authoring a Diasporist Manifesto and attempting to instigate a modern Jewish school of painting. This catalogue is the first new Kitaj overview since the artist’s death in 2007, and looks at all the major periods of Kitaj’s work, surveying prints and sketches as well as paintings.