Shards of the Shoah in R. B. Kitaj's Painting If Not, Not (1976)

Frankel, Hazel

doi:10.5325/soundings.103.4.0449

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Research Article| October 01 2020

Shards of the Shoah in R. B. Kitaj's Painting If Not, Not (1976)

Hazel Frankel

University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities

Hazel Frankel is a research associate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her current research focuses on interactions between the visual arts and literature, and Holocaust representation and memory studies. Her articles have appeared in Eastern European Jewish Affairs, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Journal for Semitics, Literator, English Studies in Africa, Journal of Literary Studies, inter alia, and Memoirs: Our Stories, Our Lives, a Collection of Survivor-Immigrant Interviews.

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Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2020) 103 (4): 449–472.

https://doi.org/10.5325/soundings.103.4.0449

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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.

R. B. Kitaj, If Not, Not, Holocaust representation, Holocaust memory, fragmentation, collage

2020

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