Word: litterbug
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...Kitaj throws the book at the viewer. He believes Francis Bacon the greatest British painter since Gainsborough, and endorses his statement that "Art is a game by which man distracts himself." And Kitaj provides enough puns and anagrams for a month of Sundays. His paintings are a kind of litterbug's playground, scattered with the paperwork of mass communications. There are doodles drawn from Erasmus' notebooks, titles that refer to obscure Marxist-Leninist deviationists. In one corner of his An Early Europe is pasted the source photograph of neoclassical nudes that inspired the painting's composition. He will borrow...