The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak (Distributed for Pucker Art Publications, Boston)

Samuel Bak; Lawrence L. Langer

ISBN 10: 1879985039 / ISBN 13: 9781879985032

Published by Indiana Univ Pr, 1999

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Synopsis:

This title presents a series of some 50 color plates of chess-inspired landscapes, in the artist's words, "images of a world of chess after the universal flood, when hardly anything remained intact...a world where things disintegrate", an effort at "seizing the moment, before it is too late and all proof is lost," prefaced by an essay in which Holocaust literary scholar Lawrence L. Langer explicates the multiple meanings of Bak's imagery.

About the Authors:

Lawrence L. Langer is Alumnae Chair Professor of English Emeritus at Simmons College. His publications include The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory, Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology, and Preempting the Holocaust.

Samuel Bak had the first exhibition of his drawings at the age of nine in the Vilna ghetto. Escaping after its destruction, he emigrated to Israel, where he studied at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. Now an internationally prominent artist living in the Boston area, Bak has had solo exhibitions of his work at galleries in the United States, Israel and Europe. Landscapes of Jewish Experience: Paintings by Samuel Bak, with essay and commentary by Lawrence L. Langer, was published in 1997.

Lawrence L. Langer is Alumnae Chair Professor of English Emeritus at Simmons College.His publications include The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination, Holocaust Testimonies: TheRuins of Memory, Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology, and Preempting theHolocaust.

Samuel Bak had the first exhibition of his drawings at the age of ninein the Vilna ghetto. Escaping after its destruction, he emigrated to Israel, where he studied at theBezalel Art School in Jerusalem. Now an internationally prominent artist living in the Boston area,Bak has had solo exhibitions of his work at galleries in the United States, Israel and Europe.Landscapes of Jewish Experience: Paintings by Samuel Bak, with essay and commentary by Lawrence L.Langer, was published in 1997.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of ...
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket