The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak (Distributed for Pucker Art Publications, Boston) - Hardcover

Langer, Lawrence L.

9781879985032: The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak (Distributed for Pucker Art Publications, Boston)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1879985039 ISBN 13: 9781879985032

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1999

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.

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From the Back Cover:

""The paintings of The Game Continues provide stimulating commentary on the richness and the limits of metaphor in art. Samuel Bak's provocative chess-inspired landscapes illuminate the waste of war in a profaned world, and its impact on the human spirit. Peopled by pawns and knights, rooks and bishops, kings and queens, Bak's vision of conflict from the ancient to the modern era deflates romantic notions of heroic combat. His shattered chessboards rise dramatically out of a barren terrain, recording a decline in human majesty even as he invites us to reconstrue more fruitful imaginings.""--BOOK JACKET. ""The Game Continues reproduces in full color a new series of 52 chess paintings by Bak. Holocaust scholar Lawrence L. Langer guides and enriches our understanding of this unusual artist's complex vision.""--BOOK JACKET.

About the Author:

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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