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Article: Is Kitaj a Modern Dreyfus? Painter Sees Anti-Semitism ...
Forward;  July 29, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... lecture on the subject of Mr. Kitaj's Jewishness at the Tate ... or Jews." But although Mr. Kitaj's supporters are up in arms ... letter accusing Evening Standard art critic Brian Sewell of "virulent homophobia ... highly unflattering light. Mr. Kitaj, who has compared himself to ...

Article: Reclusive Kitaj Steps Into the Limelight: Self-Styled ...
Forward;  June 24, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... Suitcase' to Tate Gallery R.B. Kitaj, the self-described "tribal ... international contemporary artists -- "Kitaj draws better than almost anyone ... according to Time magazine art critic Robert Hughes -- but it is not just for technique that Mr. Kitaj is legendary. He is notoriously ...

Article: The Arts: Has Kitaj's moment come? His last show in London ...
The Independent - London;  November 13, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... the height of these attacks, Kitaj's wife, the painter Sandra ... suddenly. As soon as he could, Kitaj - seeing malignant connections ... Well, I wasn't being an art critic that year, and I'm not sure ... the retrospective at all, but Kitaj's work as a whole seems to ...

Article: Kitaj and the firing squad
The Independent - London;  May 27, 1997 ;     700+ words ...RB Kitaj has sold his house in Chelsea, has bought ... Gallery retrospective exhibition in 1994. Kitaj was panned, and at the height of the barrage ... an aneurism. It has proved impossible for Kitaj to separate the two things, and he is convinced ...

Article: Painter R.B. Kitaj Letting Loose at 72, But Far From ...
The New York Observer (New York, NY);  March 21, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Byline: Hilton Kramer The career of R.B. Kitaj, whose work is the subject of a very large ... and work. Then, too, there's Mr. Kitaj's "obsession" (his word) with the ... It's important to understand that Mr. Kitaj's interest in Jewishness has everything ...

Article: Mirror for the century? Kitaj's Cecil Court. (painter R.B. ...
History Today;  August 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... Gallery's current exhibition 'R.B. Kitaj: a Retrospective' brings into focus another ... expression of an intense subjectivity. In Kitaj's pictures, images from quite disparate ... alive. This point is well exemplified by Kitaj's painting 'Cecil Court, London WC2 ...

Article: r. b. kitaj
The Independent - London;  October 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... extraordinary imagination and force, R.B. Kitaj made a distinctive contribution to art ... surname of the research chemist Dr Walter Kitaj, a refugee from Vienna whom his mother ... 1950s, always reading intensively, Ron Kitaj moved between art schools in New York and ...