- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd; 3rd Revised edition edition (31 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0714838918
- ISBN-13: 978-0714838915
- Product Dimensions: 30.5 x 23.7 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,612,877 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This revised and expanded monograph provides full documentation of Kitaj's work to date, including his paintings, pastels and drawings. The book is a result of a series of interviews and letters between the artist and the author and from the artist's active participation in the design. In this edition the author has updated his text to include a survey of Kitaj's work in the 1990s. A new section of 20 illustrations of recent work has been added, and illustrations that were in black and white in earlier editions are now reproduced in full colour. Kitaj himself completes this 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.
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Format:Hardcover
overall the book was very well reproduced however at least three of the plates were very poor representations of the original colours. That said it is a fantastic record of the entire career of the artist to date.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
this review refers to the older edition
12 Dec 2000
Format:Paperback
I have the older edition described above and I thought it was the greatest thing until now. My main disappointment in that edition was the number of b/w prints. Kitaj is a superior draftsman whose work brings in a lot of outside allusions - it looks like the work of a great and active mind that knows about things you yourself have no knowledge of - almost as if he lives on another planet, really. Anyway, whatever it is you know about, the drawing is what makes this great. Kitaj draws eyes better than anyone I can think of. I'd love to read more about his response to the critical panning he received in England recently.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Among The Very Best of Contemporary American Painters
18 Dec 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
R.B. Kitaj was one of the most exciting, interesting and perplexing of the worlds generation of painters born in the late 1920's and early 1930's. What is more, he joined the minority of top artists of his day who kept alive the ancient traditions of figurative painting. Beyond that he was the most self-conscious, self-revelatory, overtly intellectual and aggressively Jewish in content of his time. He also championed the incorporation of text in pictures and attempts at written explanation accompanying paintings, to the chagrin of many critics. Complex, allusive, surrealist, polished in his work, in the later decades of his life, he opened up to free expression, broad, sweeping strokes, unfinished surfaces and emphasis on the most basic of human emotions. The intensity of love, grief, despair, hope, and frustration, manifest in high color, in those last years, struck me at the time as being as stirring as any work I have ever seen.
In this fourth edition of his standard work on Kitaj, Livingstone has been abetted by the publisher who sought to endow it with the richness of pictures in color not black and white. This has made his essay on Kitaj far more enlightening and understanding
of Kitaj's life and work much deeper than was possible from earlier editions. The addition of a healthy selection from his later pictures is a major improvement. The inclusion of some of Kitaj's own commentaries on particular work illustrated in the book helps one to see the artist's mind at work.
I can commend this fourth edition of the book to all who find their lives enriched by art. Kitaj committed suicide in Los Angeles in 2007 at the age of 75.
In this fourth edition of his standard work on Kitaj, Livingstone has been abetted by the publisher who sought to endow it with the richness of pictures in color not black and white. This has made his essay on Kitaj far more enlightening and understanding
of Kitaj's life and work much deeper than was possible from earlier editions. The addition of a healthy selection from his later pictures is a major improvement. The inclusion of some of Kitaj's own commentaries on particular work illustrated in the book helps one to see the artist's mind at work.
I can commend this fourth edition of the book to all who find their lives enriched by art. Kitaj committed suicide in Los Angeles in 2007 at the age of 75.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Still in mourning
23 Jan 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was a young woman, of 25 - and it was my first time back to Holland since leaving it as a child.
Went to the Hague and in the museum there saw a Kitaj and have been haunted by him since. Then for years i lived in isolation in Ireland and only had the images in "Private View" by Snowdon to absorb. I am now 66 and have finally managed to buy Marco Livingstone & Richard Morphet 's retrospective and both books have me weeping in appreciation and in mourning still for a truly great genius, (who I carried with me for so long) that is no more.
I can now look and look - intimately devour these books - and like a magic plate which keeps refilling :
keep being fed.
Josepha van den Anker
Went to the Hague and in the museum there saw a Kitaj and have been haunted by him since. Then for years i lived in isolation in Ireland and only had the images in "Private View" by Snowdon to absorb. I am now 66 and have finally managed to buy Marco Livingstone & Richard Morphet 's retrospective and both books have me weeping in appreciation and in mourning still for a truly great genius, (who I carried with me for so long) that is no more.
I can now look and look - intimately devour these books - and like a magic plate which keeps refilling :
keep being fed.
Josepha van den Anker
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