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Article: EXHIBITIONS
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 19, 1994
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RON KITAJ is an egotist, and at his best when giving interviews.
There have been many of them recently because of his retrospective
at the Tate; a further 30 are listed in the show's catalogue and
the latest addition to the literature on the artist is Julian
Rios's Kitaj: Pictures and Conversations (Hamish Hamilton, pounds
17.50), a book that's essentially an interview at great length,
with more sophisticated questions.
The story Kitaj tells is a good one: born in Cleveland, Ohio;
ran away to sea at 16; was briefly an art student in New York; then
got to Paris and Vienna before a grant allowed him to study at the
Ruskin School in Oxford. Thereafter, from 1959-61, he was at the
Royal College ...