Painted in Words

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253010136
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Painted in Words by : Samuel S Bak

Download or read book Painted in Words written by Samuel S Bak and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-27 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At my first sight of a painting by Samuel Bak, I had the keen sense that he was telling me stories with his brush. Now that at long last he has written this book, I find it no wonder that he has painted with his pen.... Among the tens and hundreds of books I have read about the pre-Shoah and post-Shoah period... Bak’s book is unique. Despite being suffused with a sense of loss, horror, degradation, and death, it is ultimately a sanguine, funny book, full of the love of life, rocking with an almost cathartic joy. At times I found myself bursting out laughing... a marvelous ode, a colorful hymn to the forces of life, love, creation, and the joys of the senses. —From the Foreword by Amos Oz In Painted in Words internationally renowned artist Samuel Bak sets aside his brushes to narrate the stories of his life—as a child in Nazi-occupied Vilna, as a youth in European refugee camps, and as a maturing artist in Israel, France, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. With gentle humor, the child prodigy of the faraway past and the accomplished artist of today engage in a spirited dialogue from which emerges a self-portrait of "The Artist as a Young—and middle-aged and aging—Survivor." The brilliance, vision, and virtuosity that Bak brings to his painting are equally in evidence in his writing. This deeply touching work is an important contribution to Holocaust literature and art history.

In a Different Light

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis In a Different Light by : Lawrence L. Langer

Download or read book In a Different Light written by Lawrence L. Langer and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Different Light reproduces in full colour Samuel Bak's remarkable new series of 55 drawings and painting in which he examines concepts such as creation, cruelty, mortality, morality, and accusation. These paintings are a struggle to understand, explain, and rebuild. Subjects include scriptural stories of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their various encounters with their Creator; humankind's passage through Time and its changing role in existence; tikkun hao'lam-the enormous task of repairing the world; and Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, at whose centre God's and Adam's pointing fingers almost touch. Lawrence Langer develops our understanding of these rich and complicated stories and of the extraordinary artist and his personal vision.Imbued with the same rich colour palette and use of metaphors for which Bak is renowned, this body of work adds new symbols and characters to the artist's repertoire. Moreover, it asks difficult questions concerning divine compassion, human defiance, moral responsibility, and the role of the artist in society. These emotive images impel us to rethink our notions of history, and our way of seeing the past and present.

Icon of Loss

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Publisher : Pucker Art Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Icon of Loss by : Danna Nolan Fewell

Download or read book Icon of Loss written by Danna Nolan Fewell and published by Pucker Art Publications. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this examination of Samuel Bak’s most recent collection of paintings inspired by the little boy from the famous Stroop Report photo taken in the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943. Gary A. Phillips and Danna Nolan Fewell consider the historical and visual implications of this iconic image and its contemporary evocations. A survivor of the Vilna liquidation and a child prodigy whose first exhibition was held in the Vilna Ghetto at age nine, Bak weaves together personal history and Jewish history to articulate an iconography of his Holocaust experience. Bak’s art preserves memory of the twentieth-century ruination of Jewish life and culture by way of an artistic passion and precision that stubbornly announces the creativity of the human spirit.

The Game Continues

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Game Continues by : Lawrence L. Langer

Download or read book The Game Continues written by Lawrence L. Langer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The paintings of The Game Continues provide stimulating commentary on the richness and the limits of metaphor in art. Samuel Bak's provocative chess-inspired landscapes illuminate the waste of war in a profaned world, and its impact on the human spirit. Peopled by pawns and knights, rooks and bishops, kings and queens, Bak's vision of conflict from the ancient to the modern era deflates romantic notions of heroic combat. His shattered chessboards rise dramatically out of a barren terrain, recording a decline in human majesty even as he invites us to reconstrue more fruitful imaginings.""--BOOK JACKET. ""The Game Continues reproduces in full color a new series of 52 chess paintings by Bak. Holocaust scholar Lawrence L. Langer guides and enriches our understanding of this unusual artist's complex vision.""--BOOK JACKET.

The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271081481
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture by : Samantha Baskind

Download or read book The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture written by Samantha Baskind and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto and the dramatic uprising of its inhabitants have captured the American cultural imagination. The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture looks at how this place and its story have been remembered in fine art, film, television, radio, theater, fiction, poetry, and comics. Samantha Baskind explores seventy years’ worth of artistic representations of the ghetto and revolt to understand why they became and remain touchstones in the American mind. Her study includes iconic works such as Leon Uris’s best-selling novel Mila 18, Roman Polanski’s Academy Award–winning film The Pianist, and Rod Serling’s teleplay In the Presence of Mine Enemies, as well as accounts in the American Jewish Yearbook and the New York Times, the art of Samuel Bak and Arthur Szyk, and the poetry of Yala Korwin and Charles Reznikoff. In probing these works, Baskind pursues key questions of Jewish identity: What links artistic representations of the ghetto to the Jewish diaspora? How is art politicized or depoliticized? Why have Americans made such a strong cultural claim on the uprising? Vibrantly illustrated and vividly told, The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture shows the importance of the ghetto as a site of memory and creative struggle and reveals how this seminal event and locale served as a staging ground for the forging of Jewish American identity.

Scrolls of Testimony

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Scrolls of Testimony by : Abba Kovner

Download or read book Scrolls of Testimony written by Abba Kovner and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scrolls of Testimony is powerful, dramatic and compelling - the testimony of the author woven with others' eyewitness accounts, diary entries, poems, and even last wills and testaments. Many of these were carefully recorded and hidden during the war at great personal risk to the writers, who desperately wanted to record the unfathomable events before them. Regarded by many as one of the great masterpieces of Holocaust literature, Scrolls of Testimony is indeed a modern Jewish classic. Kovner worked on the book until his death, and it remains his final tribute to the courage and dignity of the victims and a fulfillment of his promise to bring their testimony to future generations."--BOOK JACKET.

Using and Abusing the Holocaust

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253023513
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Using and Abusing the Holocaust by : Lawrence L. Langer

Download or read book Using and Abusing the Holocaust written by Lawrence L. Langer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Langer, by the force of scholarship and literary precision rather than dogmatic affirmation and pathos, is one of the few writers, with the exception of significant poets and novelists, who unsettles both our customary language and conceptual instruments. His book is a moral as well as an intellectual act of a very high order." —Geoffrey Hartman, author of The Longest Shadow In this new volume, Langer—one of the most distinguished scholars writing on Holocaust literature and representation—assesses various literary efforts to establish a place in modern consciousness for the ordeal of those victimized by Nazi Germany's crimes against humanity. Essays discuss the film Life Is Beautiful, the uncritical acclaim of Fragments, the fake memoir by Benjamin Wilkomirski, reasons for the exaggerated importance still given to Anne Frank's Diary, and a recent cycle of paintings on the Old Testament by Holocaust artist Samuel Bak.

Creation Out of Clay

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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802838707
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Creation Out of Clay by : Brother Thomas

Download or read book Creation Out of Clay written by Brother Thomas and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1999-08-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lovely book presents essays and recent works in porcelain by Brother Thomas Bezanson, praised as "one of the greatest artists in the Western pottery world" by well-known Japanese ceramicist Tatsuzo Shimaoka. Brother Thomas explores his faith and the process of creation side by side with illustrations of the celebrated porcelain vases, plates, and tea bowls that are his life's work. The book also contains a nineteen-page photo essay on Brother Thomas at work in his studio by Bill Aron of Los Angeles, an introduction by Joan Chittister, and an illustrated index of the works of Brother Thomas now held in more than fifty museum collections around the world.

Preempting the Holocaust

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300082685
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (826 download)

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Book Synopsis Preempting the Holocaust by : Lawrence L. Langer

Download or read book Preempting the Holocaust written by Lawrence L. Langer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Lawrence L. Langer here explores the use of Holocaust themes in literature, memoirs, film, and painting, examining the work of such authors as Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, and Simon Wiesenthal, and appraising the art of Samuel Bak, the Holocaust Project by Judy Chicago, and the Yiddish film Undzere Kinder, made in Poland after the war.

Landscapes of Jewish Experience

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Publisher : Pucker Gallery/Brandeis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Landscapes of Jewish Experience by : Samuel Bak

Download or read book Landscapes of Jewish Experience written by Samuel Bak and published by Pucker Gallery/Brandeis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Bak (b. 1933, Vilna) is an artist and Holocaust survivor; he and his mother were among the few thousand Jews of Vilna who were liberated by the Soviet army in July 1944. His father was shot a few days before the liberation. The present album consists of 20 paintings commissioned as a project to explore the "landscapes of Jewish experience" theme - Jewish images such as the Tablets of the Law, the Magen David, the Tree of Life. These paintings capture the modern experience as defined by the Holocaust. Pp. 2-28 contain the essay by Langer, and the rest of the album presents the paintings with Langer's commentary.

The Boy

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429989343
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis The Boy by : Dan Porat

Download or read book The Boy written by Dan Porat and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cobblestone road. A sunny day. A soldier. A gun. A child, arms high in the air. A moment captured on film. But what is the history behind arguably the most recognizable photograph of the Holocaust? In The Boy: A Holocaust Story, the historian Dan Porat unpacks this split second that was immortalized on film and unravels the stories of the individuals—both Jews and Nazis—associated with it. The Boy presents the stories of three Nazi criminals, ranging in status from SS sergeant to low-ranking SS officer to SS general. It is also the story of two Jewish victims, a teenage girl and a young boy, who encounter these Nazis in Warsaw in the spring of 1943. The book is remarkable in its scope, picking up the lives of these participants in the years preceding World War I and following them to their deaths. One of the Nazis managed to stay at large for twenty-two years. One of the survivors lived long enough to lose a son in the Yom Kippur War. Nearly sixty photographs dispersed throughout help narrate these five lives. And, in keeping with the emotional immediacy of those photographs, Porat has deliberately used a narrative style that, drawing upon extensive research, experience, and oral interviews, places the reader in the middle of unfolding events.

Samuel Bak

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (522 download)

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Book Synopsis Samuel Bak by : Samuel Bak

Download or read book Samuel Bak written by Samuel Bak and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Samuel Bak

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Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Samuel Bak by : Pucker-Safrai Gallery

Download or read book Samuel Bak written by Pucker-Safrai Gallery and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1988 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Afterdeath of the Holocaust

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030661393
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis The Afterdeath of the Holocaust by : Lawrence L. Langer

Download or read book The Afterdeath of the Holocaust written by Lawrence L. Langer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of ten essays that examine the ways in which language has been used to evoke what Lawrence L. Langer calls the ‘deathscape’ and the ‘hopescape’ of the Holocaust. The chapters in this collection probe the diverse impacts that site visits, memoirs, survivor testimonies, psychological studies, literature and art have on our response to the atrocities committed by the Germans during World War II. Langer also considers the misunderstandings caused by erroneous, embellished and sentimental accounts of the catastrophe, and explores some reasons why they continue to enter public and printed discourse with such ease.

Witness & Legacy

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Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Witness & Legacy by : Yehudit Shendar

Download or read book Witness & Legacy written by Yehudit Shendar and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witness & Legacy is an examination of Holocaust-related art produced by American artists. with a variety of mediums--painting, sculpture, photography, graphic design, needlpoint, and multimedia--this impressive collection of artwork attempts to relate the multitude of emotions that the Holocaust inspired. with incredibly vivid and clear reproductions of each piece of art, readers will be drawn to the stunning, powerful, and often disturbing pieces that are beautifully presenting in this touching account.

When the Rainbow Breaks

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781879985308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis When the Rainbow Breaks by : Henry F. Knight

Download or read book When the Rainbow Breaks written by Henry F. Knight and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common wisdom has it that a picture is worth a thousand words, but in this series of paintings artist Samuel Bak wonders: can a word be worth a thousand pictures? Words are constructed from letters, which stem from hieroglyphic representations of the world around us. The use of letters, words, and sentences in art is not the domain only of comics and cartoons. Examples exist in medieval art, in the art of the post-Impressionists, the Cubists, the Dadaists, the Conceptualists, and more. Bak has always integrated letters and words into his art, incorporating both Hebrew and English characters, cleverly visualizing turns of phrase, and playing on multiple meanings and double entendres. In this series, the letters of the word hope appear in various conditions and ambiguous states--sometimes monumental, sometimes disguised, unnaturally large or unusually small, at times solid and whole, at other times broken and in disarray. They are both impish and foreboding, sometimes clearly presented and other times defying order or even recognition. They are wounded yet resilient, detached but seeking connection. Four simple letters--H, O, P, E--belie the significance and complexity of the word they spell. Is hope something we find or something we build? We dwell in a world that shapes us as we shape it and this interactive dimension applies to the feeling of hope, familiar to every human being who has ever anticipated, wished, or expected. For Bak, the work of building hope, or believing in the hope that others offer, requires engaging with the discarded and broken pieces of a previously trusted world now irrevocably shattered by the Holocaust. In landscapes, still lifes, and figural works, Bak gathers the layered elements of hope for us to contemplate and reminds us that they hold within and among them a promise for rebuilding and renewal. At best, hope is a wager of trust embodied in the venture of going forth. In his essay, Henry Knight guides us through the multivalent forms of hope in Bak's work, asks us to question what we see and look beyond the visible, endeavors to define what hope after the Holocaust looks like, and teaches us that the process of creation after destruction represented by Bak's work is itself the ultimate act of hope.

Samuel Bak

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
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Book Synopsis Samuel Bak by : Pamela M. Fletcher

Download or read book Samuel Bak written by Pamela M. Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: