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Shards of the Shoah in R. B. Kitaj's Painting If Not, Not (1976)
- Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 103, Number 4, 2020
- pp. 449-472
- Article
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Abstract:
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.