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The ‘Teachings of the Wall’: R.B. Kitaj’s Painting and Drawing Studios

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Abstract

In 1994 Kitaj’s retrospective at the Tate was met with viciously destructive reviews by the critics which, together with the sudden death of his wife, the painter Sandra Fischer, two weeks later from an aneurism sealed Kitaj’s decision to return to the USA. In 1997 Kitaj (1932–2007) left England and moved to Los Angeles, where he purchased a house in Westwood Village, converted the garage into a studio, and arranged the picture material on the walls that he had brought from London.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Livingstone (2001, p. 52).

  2. 2.

    Ibid., p. 31.

  3. 3.

    Ibid., p. 12.

  4. 4.

    Ibid., p. 33.

  5. 5.

    Ibid., p. 1.

  6. 6.

    Livingstone (2001, p. 22).

  7. 7.

    Ibid., p. 23.

  8. 8.

    Kohon (2016, p. 38) and Machado (1998).

  9. 9.

    van Manen (2014, p. 327).

  10. 10.

    Levi-Stauss (1962/1966, p. 35).

  11. 11.

    Ibid., p. 8.

  12. 12.

    Ibid., p. 167.

  13. 13.

    Johnson (2012, p. 106).

  14. 14.

    Ibid., p. 171.

  15. 15.

    Ibid.

  16. 16.

    Benjamin (2008, p. 21).

  17. 17.

    Withy (2015, p. 221).

  18. 18.

    Mann (1948, p. 510).

  19. 19.

    Michaud (2004, p. 253).

  20. 20.

    Lefebvre (2004).

  21. 21.

    Ibid., pp. 78–79.

  22. 22.

    Lefebvre (2004, p. 33).

  23. 23.

    Ibid.

  24. 24.

    Ibid.

  25. 25.

    Agamben (2009, p, 66).

  26. 26.

    Levinas (2005, p. 139).

  27. 27.

    Levinas (2005, p. 139).

  28. 28.

    Agamben (2009, p. 71).

  29. 29.

    Ibid., p. 74.

  30. 30.

    Levinas (2005, p. 14).

  31. 31.

    Ibid.

  32. 32.

    Heidegger (1962, pp. 290–291).

  33. 33.

    Pigrum (2001, p. 62).

  34. 34.

    Ibid., p. 83.

  35. 35.

    Agamben (1993, p. 112).

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Pigrum, D. (2021). The ‘Teachings of the Wall’: R.B. Kitaj’s Painting and Drawing Studios. In: The Wall Beside the Work. Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71629-5_12

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