Kitaj, the Architects

Kitaj, the Architects

Author: R. B. Kitaj

Publisher: Black Dog Architecture

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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RB Kitaj started painting The Architects in August of 1979 to celebrate the remodelling of his home by MJ Long. Painted largely without the models themselves present, this portrait of his friends against the backdrop of the stepped bookcase designed for him by MJ marks a transition in Kitaj's development as an artist.


Artists' Studios

Artists' Studios

Author: M. J. Long

Publisher: Black Dog Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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A personal account of various studio projects from the 1970s to the present day.


Critical Kitaj

Critical Kitaj

Author: James Aulich

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780719055263

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Kataj is a major figure on the post-war international art scene. His retrospective at the Tate in 1994 generated argument and discussion. In over 30 years as a successful artist, he has explored the relationship between the visual and the poetic, taken references from high literature and popular culture, represented heroic figures and struggled to develop an iconography of post-Holocaust Jewish identity.


An Architecture of Invitation

An Architecture of Invitation

Author: Sarah Menin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-13

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 0429856121

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First published in 2005, An Architecture of invitation: Colin St John Wilson is a distinctive study of the life and architectural career of one of the most significant makers, theorists and teachers of architecture to have emerged in England in the second half of the twentieth century. Exceptionally in an architectural study, this book interweaves biography, critical analysis of the projects, and theory, in its aims of explicating the richness of Wilson’s body of work, thought and teaching. Drawing on the specialisms of its authors, it also examines the creative and psychological impulses that have informed the making of the work – an oeuvre whose experiential depth is recognised by both users and critics.


Why Mahler?

Why Mahler?

Author: Norman Lebrecht

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 140009657X

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Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does? Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler’s every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his manuscripts, talking to those who knew him, Lebrecht constructs a compelling new portrait of Mahler as a man who lived determinedly outside his own times. Mahler was—along with Picasso, Einstein, Freud, Kafka, and Joyce—a maker of our modern world. Why Mahler? is a book that shows how music can change our lives.


Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter

Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter

Author: R. B. Kitaj

Publisher: Schirmer Mosel

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783829608138

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R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007) is one of the most intriguing 20th century artists. Kitaj left behind a manuscript unmatched among 20th-century artist autobiographies -- Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter. Eloquently describing his vices and sufferings, it stands in the traditions of both St. Augustine and Thomas de Quincey.


Drawing Futures

Drawing Futures

Author: Bob Sheil

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1911307266

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Drawing Futures brings together international designers and artists for speculations in contemporary drawing for art and architecture.Despite numerous developments in technological manufacture and computational design that provide new grounds for designers, the act of drawing still plays a central role as a vehicle for speculation. There is a rich and long history of drawing tied to innovations in technology as well as to revolutions in our philosophical understanding of the world. In reflection of a society now underpinned by computational networks and interfaces allowing hitherto unprecedented views of the world, the changing status of the drawing and its representation as a political act demands a platform for reflection and innovation. Drawing Futures will present a compendium of projects, writings and interviews that critically reassess the act of drawing and where its future may lie.Drawing Futures focuses on the discussion of how the field of drawing may expand synchronously alongside technological and computational developments. The book coincides with an international conference of the same name, taking place at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, in November 2016. Bringing together practitioners from many creative fields, the book discusses how drawing is changing in relation to new technologies for the production and dissemination of ideas.