Representing the Irreparable: The Shoah, the Bible, and the Art of Samuel Bak

The art of Samuel Bak depicts a world destroyed and yet provisionally pieced back together. Across nearly seven decades of artistic production Samuel Bak has explored and reworked a set of metaphors, a visual grammar and vocabulary, that ultimately privileges questions. Bak's pictorial readings invite reconsideration of the Post-Reformation privileging of word over image, and of the Post-Enlightenment privileging of reason over experience. Bak 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.

Author: Danna Nolan Fewell
Publisher: Pucker Art Publications
Published: 10/14/2008
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 10.20h x 8.30w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781879985186
ISBN10: 1879985187
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Individual Artists | General
- Art | History | General