Author: Jennifer RamkalawonPublisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781468312775
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The definitive collection of the artist's graphic works in a beautifully produced volume.
Kitaj Prints
Author: Jennifer RamkalawonPublisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781468312775
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The definitive collection of the artist's graphic works in a beautifully produced volume.
Critical Kitaj
Author: James AulichPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719055263
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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.
The Prints of R.B. Kitaj
Author: Jane KinsmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
R. B. Kitaj has emerged as one of the most independent-minded and influential artists since his student days in the late 1950s, producing an extraordinary body of work - not the least have been his prints. This study reveals that Kitaj's prints have functioned as a visual diary, documenting the vicissitudes of an artistic life, a life characterized by a constant search for new subject-matter and new means by which to depict it. Amongst other things, The Prints of R. B. Kitaj explores Kitaj's collaborations and associations with some of the most gifted printers of today, including Chris Prater, Aldo Crommelynck and Stanley Jones. It also demonstrates how he drew inspiration from some of the key figures in American modern literary life, such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan. As a life-long bibliophile, Kitaj initially found the direct impetus for much of his art in books. More recently, however, it is the images from his favourite artists which have proved influential. Jane Kinsman's study is notable for its insight into Kitaj's print oeuvre. Of equal importance is the light it sheds on the development of a complex artistic temperament. In addition R. B. Kitaj, himself, has contributed over 30 'Afterwords' which appear throughout the text. They form a running autobiographical commentary on his art and his life.
The human clay
Author: Kitaj
Author: Julián RíosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Presents a pairing of Kitaj's art and the conversations inspired by it.
Kelpra Prints
Author: Arts Council of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prints
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Imagining Jewish Art
Author: Aaron RosenPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1906540543
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
What does Jewish art look like? Where many scholars, critics, and curators have gone searching for the essence of Jewish art in Biblical illustrations and portraits of rabbis, Rosen sets out to discover Jewishness in unlikely places. How, he asks, have modern Jewish painters explored their Jewish identity using an artistic past which is -- by and large -- non-Jewish? In this new book, we encounter some of the great works of Western art history through Jewish eyes. We see Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece re-imagined by Marc Chagall (1887-1985), traces of Paolo Uccello and Piero della Francesca in Philip Guston (1913-1980), and images by Diego Velazquez and Paul Cezanne studiously reworked by R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007). This highly comparative study draws on theological, philosophical and literary sources from Franz Rosenzweig to Franz Kafka and Philip Roth. Rosen deepens our understanding not only of these three modern painters but also of how art might serve as a key resource for rethinking such fundamental Jewish concepts as family, tradition, and homeland.
R.B. Kitaj
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789082343403
Category : Painting, American
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932-2007), born in Ohio (USA), was one of the most important artists Unpacking My Library2in London's art scene of the 1960s. He was a fervent reader and book collector and his colourful and sometimes provocative paintings contain many political, philosophical and literary references. Kitaj's Jewish identity played an important role in his life and work. Bringing together paintings from collections around the world and a series of screen prints of book covers that Kitaj made in 1969-70 with the master printer Chris Prater, the exhibition Unpacking My Library offers a fascinating insight into Kitaj's unique Jewish, bibliophile sensibility. The series In Our Time: Covers for a Small Library After the Life for the Most Part reflects the humour and irony with which Kitaj questioned the role of spirituality and morals in the modern age. The exhibition takes place in the print room.00Exhibition: Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (20.03.-12.07.2015).
Chagall to Kitaj
Author: Avram KampfPublisher: Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Author: R. B. Kitaj