R. B. Kitaj
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Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford
, 1995 |
Ronald Brooks Kitaj who spent much of his life in England.
Life
He was born in
He studied at the
Kitaj married his first wife, Elsi Roessler, in 1953; they had a son, screenwriter
Career
Kitaj settled in England, and through the 1960s taught at the
"School of London"
He curated an exhibition for the Arts Council at the Hayward Gallery in 1976, entitled "The Human Clay" (an allusion to W. H. Auden's lines 'To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso … '),[9] including works by 48 London artists, such as William Roberts, Richard Carline, Colin Self and Maggi Hambling, championing the cause of figurative art at a time when abstract was dominant. In an essay in the controversial catalogue, he invented the phrase the "School of London" to describe painters such as Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Euan Uglow, Michael Andrews, Reginald Gray, Peter de Francia[10] and himself.[11][failed verification][12]
Style and influence
Kitaj had a significant influence on British
Kitaj was recognised as being one of the world's leading draftsmen, almost on a par with, or compared to,
Kitaj staged a major exhibition at
Later years
In his later years, he developed a greater awareness of his Jewish heritage, which found expression in his works, with reference to the
A second
In 1997 Kitaj exhibited his work Sandra Three, an installation of paintings, photographs and text that stretched across an entire wall of the gallery at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. Kitaj used the Academy's Summer Exhibition to showcase this sequence of works that dealt with the events of the "Tate War" and Sandra's death and even included a graffiti inscription stating 'The Critic Kills'.[21]
In 2000, Kitaj was one of several artists to make a
In 2007, Kitaj published his Second Diasporist Manifesto with Yale University Press and died one month later.[22]
In September 2010, Kitaj and five British artists including Howard Hodgkin, John Walker, Ian Stephenson, Patrick Caulfield and John Hoyland were included in an exhibition entitled The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art From the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, at the Yale Center for British Art.[23][24]
In October 2012 a major international symposium was held in
All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life opened at Tate Britain in February 2018, inspired by Kitaj's School of London.[27][28]
References
- ^ a b c d e Bohm-Duchen, Monica (October 2012). "Kitaj in Berlin". Jewish Renaissance. 12 (1): 44–45.
- ^ "R. B. Kitaj". artnet.com. Retrieved January 17, 2023.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ^ )
- ^ McNay, Michael (October 23, 2007). "Obituary: RB Kitaj". The Guardian. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ^ Obituary, The Independent, October 25, 2007
- ^ Boehm, Mike (December 5, 2007). "Kitaj's Death is ruled a suicide". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
- ^ Chaney, 2012, pp. 97–8
- ^ W. H. Auden 'Letter to Lord Byron' (1937).
- ^ "Socialist-Expressionist: Peter de Francia (1921–2012) – artcritical". artcritical. March 6, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ^ Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, October 24, 2007[dead link]
- ^ "db-art.info". db-artmag.com. 2009. Retrieved November 9, 2013.
- ^ "Obituary: Chris Prater". The Independent. November 8, 1996. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ^ Edward Chaney, 'R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007): Warburgian Artist', emaj issue 7.1 November 2013, www.emajartjournal.com, pp. 1–34.
- ^ Ashbery, John (March 7, 2011). "R. B. Kitaj". The Paris Review. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
- ^ Kitaj, First Diasporist Manifesto, 19
- ^ R. B. Kitaj 1932–2007, Charles Donelan, Santa Barbara Independent Retrieved January 25, 2011
- ^ Postcard (Whistler vs. Ruskin 1992) dated June 1999.
- ^ Postcard to Edward Chaney: My Cat and Her Husband 1977, dated June 2002.
- ^ Chaney, "Warburgian Artist", p. 102
- ISBN 978-1-910350-70-6.
- ^ Nussbaum, Esther "Second Diasporist Manifesto: A New Kind of Long Poem in 615 Free Verses" Jewish Book Council Published February 20, 2012, Retrieved October 18, 2023
- ^ Channeling American Abstraction, Karen Wilkin, Wall Street Journal Retrieved October 7, 2010
- ^ NY Times, exhibition review Retrieved December 15, 2010
- ^ Metro, exhibition review Retrieved March 4, 2013
- ^ The Independent, exhibition review Retrieved March 4, 2013
- ^ "Freud and Bacon get a modern makeover in Tate Britain's All Too Human, inspired by Kitaj". Evening Standard. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
- ^ "All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Life Painting review". Time Out London. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
Sources
- Kitaj, R. B. (1989). First Diasporist Manifesto. ISBN 0-500-27543-2.
- Kitaj, R. B. (2007). Second Diasporist Manifesto. A New Kind of Long Poem in 615 Free Verses. ISBN 978-0-300-12456-9.
Further reading
- Baskind, Samantha, Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America,Philadelphia, PA, Penn State University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-271-05983-9
- Chaney, Edward,'Kitaj versus Creed', The London Magazine (April 2002), pp. 106–11.
- Chaney, Edward, "Warburgian Artist: R.B. Kitaj, Edgar Wind, Ernst Gombrich and the Warburg Institute". Obsessions: R.B. Kitaj 1932–2007. Jewish Museum Berlin. Kerber Art, 2012, pp. 97–103.
- Chaney, Edward, 'R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007): Warburgian Artist', "emaj" issue 7.1 November [1]
- Duncan, Robert. "A Paris Visit, with R.B. Kitaj". Conjunctions, no. 8, Fall 1985, pp. 8–17
- Kampf, Avraham. Chagall to Kitaj: Jewish Experience in Twentieth-Century Art. Exhibition catalogue. London: Lund Humphries and the Barbican Art Gallery, 1990.
- Kitaj, R. B. First Diasporist Manifesto. London : Thames and Hudson, 1989.
- Kitaj, R. B. The Second Diasporist Manifesto. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2007.
- Kitaj, R. B. / Irving Petlin. Rubbings...The Large Paintings and the Small Pastels. Exhibition catalogue. Purchase, New York, and Chicago: Neuberger Museum and Arts Club of Chicago, 1978.
- Lambirth, Andrew. Kitaj. London: ISBN 0-85667-571-7
- Livingstone, Marco (1985). R. B. Kitaj. Phaidon. ISBN 0-7148-2204-3.
- Palmer, Michael. "Four Kitaj Studies", from The Promises of Glass. New York: New Directions Publishing, 2000.
- Stępnik, Małgorzata. Błogosławione błądzenie. Na marginesie diasporycznego manifestu Ronalda B. Kitaja (The Blessed Wandering. Side Notes on Ronald B. Kitaj's Diasporic Manifesto) (in:) Sztuka i edukacja, (eds.) A. Boguszewska, B. Niścior, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin 2015.
- Stępnik, Małgorzata. The Aesthetics of the School of London "Diasporic" Painting – on the Basis of Ronald B. Kitaj's Literary Manifestos (in:) Studies on Modern Art Vol. 5: Art of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland & Republic of Ireland in 20th–21st Centuries and Polish – British & Irish Art Relation, (eds.) M. Geron, J. Malinowski, J. W. Sienkiewicz, Toruń: ISBN 978-83-231-3438-1.
External links
- 38 artworks by or after R. B. Kitaj at the Art UK site
- 2 artworks by R. B. Kitaj at the Ben Uri site