R B Kitaj: A Life 1994

Overview

A Documentary about Painter R B Kitaj. Though Kitaj was one of the most public of artists, making some of the most immediate, accessible and honest images of our age, he was also a very private man, determined to avoid the spontaneity of film. He finally relented in 1994 and the result is a remarkably candid look at his life and work. "My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now." R. B. Kitaj. The fil