Kitaj's enigmatic and highly personal paintings engage with contemporary culture, his Jewish identity, and the horror of the Holocaust. His hero is Cézanne: "He is my greatest painter of all and the three last Bathers are my favorite art of all." Kitaj recently embarked on a series of seven major new paintings inspired by Cézanne's Bathers for an exhibition at the National Gallery, London. These new works are reproduced here for the first time, together with a series of black chalk drawings, directly inspired by Cézanne. The book includes a short essay about Kitaj's work, which places the new paintings in the context of his earlier works and reveals his constant preoccupation with the Old Masters. There is also a new and previously unpublished interview with the artist.
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Published by National Gallery Company. Distributed by Yale University Press.
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R. B. Kitaj moved back to his native United States shortly after his controversial retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London, in 1994, and he now lives and works in Los Angeles. Anthony Rudolf is a literary critic and translator. His most recent book is The Arithmetic of Memory. Colin Wiggins is senior education officer at the National Gallery, London.
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