Representing the irreparable : the Shoah, the Bible, and the art of Samuel Bak / edited by Danna Nolan Fewell, Gary A. Phillips, and Yvonne Sherwood ; texts by Samuel Bak ... [and others] ; introduction, Gary A. Phillips and Danna Nolan Fewell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fewell, Danna Nolan.

Philips, Gary A. (Gary Allen)

Sherwood, Yvonne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bak, Samuel--Criticism and interpretation.

Bak, Samuel.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in art.

Jewish art and symbolism.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xv, 208 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Pucker Art Publications ; Syracuse, N.Y. : Distributed by Syracuse University Press, [2008]

Contents:

Where there is still life : sketching the life of Samuel Bak / Bernard H. Pucker

What, how, and when : on my art and myself / Samuel Bak

Myth, midrash, and mysticism : the painting of Samuel Bak / Michael Fishbane

Skeptical visions and scriptural truths : Bak's Genesis paintings / Lawrence L. Langer

Bak's dreams : painting as midrash / Alicia Ostriker

Seeing words, reading images : allegory and interpretation in Bak and Benjamin / S. Brent Rodríguez Plate

Genesis, genocide, and the art of Samuel Bak : "unseamly" reading after the Holocaust / Danna Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips

Bak's impossible memorials : giving face to the children / Danna Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips

Iconoclash and akedah : Holocaust and sacrifice in the art of Samuel Bak / Yvonne Sherwood

Images of disaster : survival and the impossible in the artwork of Samuel Bak and the Book of Job / Dan Mathewson

The end of time : Bak's art, Messiaen's music, and Levinas's ethics / Charles Rix

Labyrinths : a response / Samuel Bak.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and index.

ISBN:

1879985187

9781879985186

OCLC:

187418585