Shards of the Shoah in R. B. Kitaj's Painting If Not, Not (1976)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21394941 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hermione Frankel (0000-0002-6968-6202, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author), Hazel Frankel (University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 449-472 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Soundings An Interdisciplinary Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-1861 • E-ISSN: 2161-6302 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/soundings.103.4.0449 |
| OpenAlex | W3093990485 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article discusses R. B. Kitaj's painting If Not, Not (1976) with reference to issues of aesthetic representation of the Holocaust, in which Kitaj creates a cultural site for bearing witness for the Jewish victims. Striving to depict the unimaginable, Kitaj's method endorses meaning. Juxtaposing ambiguous, discordant images, he evokes a broken modern world and serves traumatic memory
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Judaism · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Painting · Political science · Representation (politics) · The Holocaust · Theology · Visual arts · Witness · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |