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From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: June 28, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

R B Kitaj, a man well versed in the literature of Western Europe, is doubtless familiar with the old French expression "Il ne se prend pas pour de la merde", which may be literally if a little clumsily translated as "He does not take himself for a piece of excrement". Kitaj, for one, most certainly does not. The absolute assurance with which he views himself as an artist of world-historical significance lends his exhibition at the Tate Gallery a poignancy which his paintings themselves, so cold-hearted, never begin to achieve. "R B Kitaj: A Retrospective" presents the dispiriting, admonitory ...

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