Representing the irreparable : the Shoah, the Bible, and the art of Samuel Bak / edited by Danna Nolan Fewell ..; Texts by Samuel Bak ...

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...

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Weitere Verfasser:Fewell, Danna Nolan (HerausgeberIn)
Bak, Samuel (BerichterstatterIn)
Phillips, Gary Allen (BerichterstatterIn)
Sherwood, Yvonne (BerichterstatterIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht:Boston, Mass : Pucker Art Publications, 2008
Syracuse, N.Y, 2008
Ausgabe:1st ed
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Zusammenfassung: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 Rodriguez 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 / 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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XV, 208 S. Ill
ISBN:1879985187
9781879985186