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The Game Continues

The Game Continues

Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak
Lawrence L. Langer
Distribution: World
Publication date: 10/1/1999
Format: cloth 0 pages, 35 b&w illus., 50 color illus.
8 x 11
ISBN: 978-1-879985-03-2
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Description

Samuel Bak, the internationally prominent Holocaust artist, uniquely depicts a destroyed world through the metaphors of chess. A series of 52 color plates illuminate Bak's personal vision of the Holocaust experience.

Author Bio

Lawrence L. Langer is Alumnae Chair Professor of English Emeritus at Simmons College. His publications include The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory, Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology, and Preempting the Holocaust.

Samuel Bak had the first exhibition of his drawings at the age of nine in the Vilna ghetto. Escaping after its destruction, he emigrated to Israel, where he studied at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. Now an internationally prominent artist living in the Boston area, Bak has had solo exhibitions of his work at galleries in the United States, Israel and Europe. Landscapes of Jewish Experience: Paintings by Samuel Bak, with essay and commentary by Lawrence L. Langer, was published in 1997.

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