Publisher's Synopsis
Together with his artist friends Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff, the American artist R.B. Kitaj was one of the pioneers of a new type of figurative art in the 1960s. Ten years later, in the mid-1970s, Kitaj positioned himself as a Jewish artist and saw himself as an instigator of a modern Jewish art movement. Published to accompany the Kitaj exhibition held at the Jüdisches Museum in Berlin in 2012-13, this book rediscovers the importance of this aspect of the artist's oeuvre.
