Posthumously published autobiography of the American artist containing anecdotes and insights about his book collecting. Kitaj offered different diagnoses over the years, the most relevant, at least to his many paintings reproduced here, was, 'I'm a bibliomaniac (not a scholar) as peculiar as any that the book disease has infected, mainly because my books fed into the pictures I make with an untutored passion. Vast libraries have crowded around my painting easel all my life and the spectres in books have haunted me, some would say ruined me, and now and again they even breathe life into some of my dubious art'. Edited and with an epilogue by Eckhart J. Gillen, preface by David Hockney; 212 reproductions, including 33 photographs by Lee Friedlander.
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