An edition of Representing the irreparable (2008)

Representing the irreparable

the Shoah, the Bible, and the art of Samuel Bak

1st ed.

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Cover of: Representing the irreparable by Danna Nolan Fewell, Yvonne Sherwood
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An edition of Representing the irreparable (2008)

Representing the irreparable

the Shoah, the Bible, and the art of Samuel Bak

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Pucker Art Publications
Language
English
Pages
208

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Subjects

Criticism and interpretation, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art, Jewish art and symbolism, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), in art

People

Samuel Bak
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Cover of: Representing the irreparable
Representing the irreparable: the Shoah, the Bible, and the art of Samuel Bak
2008, Pucker Art Publications
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Table of 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 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
759.95694
Library of Congress
ND979.B27 R47 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
208

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16390502M
ISBN 10
1879985187
LCCN
2008000003
OCLC/WorldCat
187418585
Goodreads
2589299

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