The art of Samuel Bak depicts a world destroyed and yet provisionally pieced back together. Across nearly seven decades of artistic production Samuel Bak has explored and reworked a set of metaphors, a visual grammar and vocabulary, that ultimately privileges questions. Bak's pictorial readings invite reconsideration of the Post-Reformation privileging of word over image, and of the Post-Enlightenment privileging of reason over experience. Bak preserves memory of the twentieth century ruination of Jewish life and culture by ...
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The art of Samuel Bak depicts a world destroyed and yet provisionally pieced back together. Across nearly seven decades of artistic production Samuel Bak has explored and reworked a set of metaphors, a visual grammar and vocabulary, that ultimately privileges questions. Bak's pictorial readings invite reconsideration of the Post-Reformation privileging of word over image, and of the Post-Enlightenment privileging of reason over experience. Bak preserves memory of the twentieth century ruination of Jewish life and culture by way of an artistic passion and precision that stubbornly announces the creativity of the human spirit.
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Collectable-Very Good Condition in Very Good jacket. 9781879985186. Signed by Author. ~~Signed and dedicated to Prof George Steiner, by Danna Fewell~~VG/VG 1st ed 2008 Pucker hardback, unclipped DJ. Top corners and top of spine just a little bumped else VG and unmarked. Immediate dispatch Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Signed by Author. ISBN: 1879985187. ISBN/EAN: 9781879985186. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 078130.
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