R. B. Kitaj

American painter in London, author of the First Diasporist Manifesto (1989), who read Benjamin, Kafka and Scholem and painted a Jewishness he had come to late and deliberately.

The wing's case of an artist reasoning his way INTO the tradition in public and in prose. Where Newman left a note and Krasner left almost nothing, Kitaj left a manifesto and then a second one.