Marco Livingstone's definitive and much-praised monograph on Kitaj,

based on an extraordinary series of interviews and letters between the

artist and the author, provides full documentation of Kitaj's life and

work. The artist himself participated actively in the original conception

of the book, and many of the articulate and revealing 'prefaces' he wrote

about his own paintings are also included here.

For this fourth and final edition, the author has written a new chapter

surveying Kitaj's work from 1999 to 2007, an extremely productive

period following the tragic death of his wife, the artist Sandra Fisher,

and his return to the United States. This text is complemented by an

expanded and generously illustrated section of works spanning Kitaj's

entire career, as well as a number of additional prefaces written by the

artist. The bibliography has been updated and the catalogue of works

completed, and many illustrations that were black and white in earlier

editions are now reproduced in full colour. The result is the world's most

authoritative monograph on one of modern art's outstanding talents.