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.

Other author Fewell, Danna Nolan.
Other author Philips, Gary A. (Gary Allen)
Other author Sherwood, Yvonne.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston, Mass. : Pucker Art Publications ; Syracuse, N.Y. : Distributed by Syracuse University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxv, 208 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 27 cm
Subjects
Bak, Samuel--Criticism and interpretation.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
Jewish art and symbolism.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index.
LCCN 2008000003
ISBN1879985187 (hardcover)
ISBN9781879985186 (hardcover)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks ND 979.B27 R47 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold