Representing the irreparable : the Shoah, the Bible, and the art of Samuel Bak /
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Boston, Mass. :
Pucker Art Publications ;
[2008]
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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 RodrÃguez 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 : Holocaust and sacrifice in the art of Samuel Bak / 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.