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Article: Painter R.B. Kitaj Letting Loose at 72, But Far From London.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- March 21, 2005
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Byline: Hilton Kramer
The career of R.B. Kitaj, whose work is the subject of a very large exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery, is like no other in the annals of American art. For one thing, no other American artist in recent memory has accorded to literary and historical subjects so large a role in shaping his pictorial ideas. For another, none has devoted so much attention--and so much writing--to serving as a mythographer of his own life and work. Then, too, there's Mr. Kitaj's "obsession" (his word) with the "Jewish Question," which he insistently identifies as the principal focus of his work.
It's important to understand that Mr. Kitaj's interest ...
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