一九三二年，羅那德．布路克斯．齊塔伊（Ronald Brooks Kitaj）出生於美國俄亥俄州（Ohio）的大城克里夫蘭(Cleveland)，為美裔的猶太畫家。其人生大部分的歲月都待在英國，加上猶太人的身分，使其同時生存於不同的種族血脈間，飄泊其中，交織著許多複雜的情感，就某一層觀點來說，他的藝術力量也正萌起於這些相對立的矛盾衝突中。
一位猶太藝術家如何展現他個人的民族風格與特色呢？早年的齊塔伊並不是相當清楚潛藏於個人內在的猶太人性質，直到一九七○年才進入「較有意識的猶太人時期」，在清楚的自我認識後，他更加明確地強調其藝術中的猶太主題，猶太的集體記憶隨著二次世界大戰的大屠殺，使其情感如同十字架的釘刑般愈漸沉重，更督促著他的神聖使命感，運用彩筆以留下歷史的見證。齊塔伊有意識地以倫敦為背景，將自己的繪畫藝術定位為海外的美國猶太人（Jewish-American Diasporist），並透過海外猶太人的複雜心境與心理分析，進行一系列的創作，包括奧許維茲集中營（Auschwitz Concentration Camp）、喬．辛格（Joe Singer）與德意志帝國（Germania）三項主題。
文中第一章先從藝術家的思想著手，探討卡夫卡與班傑明對其猶太身分認定上所帶來的肯定，與受到美國現代詩學的深刻影響，並涵蓋了齊塔伊一生經歷的介紹，以突顯出其漂泊歲月的猶太游牧情結。第二章則是進入齊塔伊畫作的世界，以解其晦澀難懂的藝術風格，並進行圖像的詮釋。第三章即是齊塔伊藝術中的猶太游牧情結，以了解其如何以一步步前進的方式，來親近猶太人的歷史，並展開一系列的創作，來反映出二十世紀猶太人生命的複雜詭異。在第四篇章裡，處理齊塔伊藝術的定位問題。
是故本研究之目的，在於解開齊塔伊藝術中晦澀難解的圖像之謎，經由對藝術家個人生平傳記與繪畫發展之詳盡認識，可了解到其深具猶太人的游牧情節。珍妮德．沃勒弗（Janet Wolff）的分析，認為齊塔伊猶太身分的確立時期，應集中在一九七五至八五年這十年間，然，誠如畫家本人在面對威妮．漢娜（Werner Hanak）的訪問時，回答到他個人藝術的猶太人時期，事實上是沒有終了的一天。可知，猶太身份的認定與猶太藝術的關懷，正是齊塔伊一生中所要面對的最重要課題。

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