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HardCover. Pub Date :2013-04-30 Pages: 264 Language: English Publisher: Kerber Cleveland. Ohio-born painter RB 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. Kitajs 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 artists death in 2007. and looks at all the major periods of Kitajs work. surveying prin...
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Obsessions: R. B. Kitaj
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Paperback. Condition: Good. A4-size hardback with pictorial boards and beige linen spine in good condition. Together with his artist friends Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff, the American artist R.B. Kitaj was one of the pioneers of a new type of figurative art in the 1960s. Ten years later, in the mid-1970s, Kitaj positioned himself as a Jewish artist and saw himself as an instigator of a modern Jewish art movement. Published to accompany the Kitaj exhibition held at the Jdisches Museum in Berlin in 2012-13, this book rediscovers the importance of this aspect of the artist's oeuvre. Seller Inventory # 420953
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R.B. Kitaj: Obsessions, 1932-2007
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Obsessions : R. B. Kitaj, 1932 - 2007 : [publ. to accompany the Exhibition: Obsessions, R. B. Kitaj (1932 - 2007) ; Cilly Kugelmann ; Eckhart Gillen ; Hubertus Gaßner. [Transl.: Jeremy Gains ; Petra Gains] / Kerber art
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R.B. Kitaj: Obsessions, 1932-2007 (First Edition)
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R.B. KITAJ: Obsessions, 1932-2007
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Bartley, Tracy et al. R.B. KITAJ: Obsessions, 1932-2007. 264 pages, including 203 color, 65 b&w plates and 5 gatefolds. 4to, boards. Bielefeld, Kerber Verlag, 2013. This catalogue, created for a show at the Jewish Musem in Berlin, does not conform to conventional expectations of a retrospective, at least not where the text is concerned. What you can expect from this book, and get in spades, is a beautifully printed, fabulously illustrated visual survey of Kitaj's career, presented chronologically. His work has not been given this kind of attention in many years, and it is long overdue. There is no general introduction to the artist or his career to orient the reader. The first essay (keep looking, it's on page 83), dives right into the role and meaning of diaspora in Kitaj's work-Walter Benjamin features prominently. Subsequent essays expand on Kitaj's work in the context of his Jewish identity and history. One essay, written by the assistent who worked for him during the last 10 years of his life, provides a more personal perspective. There are several full-page photographs of the artist, but they are undated and without captions. They leave a lingering sense of mystery, which is probably what he would have wanted. Seller Inventory # 148437
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