Representing the irreparable
Subtitle: the Shoah, the Bible, and the art of Samuel Bak
By: edited by Danna Nolan Fewell, Gary A. Phillips, and Yvonne Sherwood.
Contributors: Fewell, Danna Nolan.; Phillips, Gary Allen.; Sherwood, Yvonne.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pucker Art Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Bak, Samuel -- Criticism and interpretation; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art; Jewish art and symbolism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Where there is still life: sketching the life of Samuel Bak / Bernard H. Pucker; title: What, how, and when: on my art and myself; title: Samuel Bak; title: Myth, midrash and mysticism: the painting of Samuel Bak / Michael Fishbane; title: Skeptical visions and scriptural truths: Bak's Genesis paintings / Lawrence L. Langer; title: Bak's dreams: painting as midrash / Alicia Ostriker; title: Seeing words, reading images: allegory and interpretation in Bak and Benjamin / S. Brent Rodriguez Plate; title: Genesis, genocide, and the art of Samuel Bak: "unseamly" reading after the Holocaust / Danna Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips; title: Bak's impossible memorials: giving face to the children / Danna Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips; title: Iconoclash and akedah / Yvonne Sherwood; title: Images of disaster: survival and the impossible in the artwork of Samuel Bak and the Book of Job / Dan Mathewson; title: The end of time: Bak's art, Messiaen's music, and Levinas's ethics / Charles Rix; title: Labyrinths: a response / Samuel Bak.