R.B. Kitaj: views of a fractured century. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)(Cover Story)

Art in America | March 1, 1995| | Copyright

The oeuvre that R.B. Kitaj has produced over the past 30-plus years is bewilderingly complex, contradictory and disjunctive. He has always been driven by subject matter: his themes have ranged from the great historical, social, political and moral issues of our time to the vicissitudes of his own sex life. But while his elegantly drawn and deftly painted works revolve around figurative representations, our access to them tends to be frustrated by puzzling iconography and compositions that are abstracted, fragmented, layered and disconnected. Morevover, Kitaj's stylistic ...

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