- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press (December 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0813528992
- ISBN-13: 978-0813528991
- Product Dimensions: 24.7 x 17.5 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 903 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"...I find this collection actually the best book-length study of Kitaj that is available." -- Sander L. Gillman, Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology, The University of Chicago.
--This text refers to the
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Kataj is a major figure on the post-war international art scene. His retrospective at the Tate in 1994 generated argument and discussion. In over 30 years as a successful artist, he has explored the relationship between the visual and the poetic, taken references from high literature and popular culture, represented heroic figures and struggled to develop an iconography of post-Holocaust Jewish identity. This set of essays bring together a range of critical approaches to different aspects of his work, including his painting, print-making and film-making. The book seeks to enable the reader to understand the complexities of his work and also encourages them to re-consider established readings of Kitaj.
--This text refers to an alternate
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An excellent collection of critical essays,
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This review is from: Critical Kitaj (Paperback)
As a student currently researching a dissertation on Kitaj, I must say that this handy little book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the study of this fascinating artist. The texts are rather dense and scholarly (the general reader should check out Marco Livingstone's monograph) but they cover a very wide range of issues and interpretations, some of which have never been dealt with in depth before. One such example is Pat Gilmour's essay on Kitaj's importance as a screenprinter, something rarely touched on in the literature, mainly due to Kitaj's re-evaluation of his early work. Furthermore, other essays explore Kitaj's relation to tradition, his interest in cinema, as well as the social and historical context surrounding some of his allusive paintings. There is even a rather critical essay by Terry Atkinson (formerly of Art & Language) which takes Kitaj to task for daring to carry on the "fetish" of painting. Rather, suggests Atkinson, artists ought to give up such nonsense and sit around pondering the nature of Modernism instead. Oh well, we can't all be philosophers, yet it's heartening that there are still artists alive such as Kitaj who can carry on producing painting which invites informed and stimulating discussion in books such as this.
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An excellent collection of critical essays,
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This review is from: Critical Kitaj (Paperback)
As a student currently researching a dissertation on Kitaj, I must say that this handy little book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the study of this fascinating artist. The texts are rather dense and scholarly (the general reader should check out Marco Livingstone's monograph) but they cover a very wide range of issues and interpretations, some of which have never been dealt with in depth before. One such example is Pat Gilmour's essay on Kitaj's importance as a screenprinter, something rarely touched on in the literature, mainly due to Kitaj's re-evaluation of his early work. Furthermore, other essays explore Kitaj's relation to tradition, his interest in cinema, as well as the social and historical context surrounding some of his allusive paintings. There is even a rather critical essay by Terry Atkinson (formerly of Art & Language) which takes Kitaj to task for daring to carry on the "fetish" of painting. Rather, suggests Atkinson, artists ought to give up such nonsense and sit around pondering the nature of Modernism instead. Oh well, we can't all be philosophers, yet it's heartening that there are still artists alive such as Kitaj who can carry on producing painting which invites informed and stimulating discussion in books such as this. |
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