About the Author

David Hockney was born in Bradford, UK, in 1937 and is one of the most prominent figurative painters alive. He was a close friend of Kitaj's. Eckhart Gillen, German art historian, was curator of the 2012 Kitaj retrospective Obsessions at the Jewish Museum, Berlin.

Reviews

"Ten years after Kitaj's suicide in Los Angeles, a German publisher has brought out his Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter. The editor, Eckhart J.Gillen, was one of the curators of the superb Kitaj retrospective mounted by the Jewish Museum in Berlin in 2012. From a fragmentary and often repetitive typescript, he has put together a thoroughly readable text. Any thinness is well masked by plentiful illustrations--more than two hundred in all--not only of Kitaj's works but also his own intimate photographs and those of Lee Friedlander, his lifelong friend. With a preface by David Hockney and Gillen's epilogue and useful end matter, it is a handsome and necessary volume." -Timothy Hyman, New York Review of Books