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PublisherPucker Gallery
ISBN-101879985284
ISBN-139781879985285
eBay Product ID (ePID)177579869
Product Key Features
Book TitleTold and Foretold : the Cup in the Art of Samuel Bak
Number of Pages100 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHolocaust, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, General, History / General, Jewish Studies, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year2014
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Social Science, History
AuthorLawrence L. Langer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length11.3 in
Item Width8.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2013-050414
SynopsisIn his latest series of paintings featuring images of cups, Samuel Bak proves once again that he is a master of the collapsing visual metaphor. His images do not vanish from the canvas, but they lose their integrity, groping for a form that will enable them to retain some semblance of their original shapes. Often set against a background of mountainous or other natural terrain, these damaged images offer a disturbing contrast to the indifference of most of the landscapes they inhabit. In the few cases where human figures appear, they seem displaced, sad, burdened, struggling vainly to establish some control over the disarray that assaults them. Bak's art and the questions he raises are important for viewers today because he is overtly concerned with matters both of his own personal experience and those of the larger human condition. His work preserves the 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.
LC Classification NumberND979.B27A4 2014
