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The game continues : chess in the art of Samuel Bak / Lawrence L. Langer.
- Title
- The game continues : chess in the art of Samuel Bak / Lawrence L. Langer.
- Author
- Langer, Lawrence L.
- Publication
- Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | ND979.B27 L36 1999 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Bak, Samuel
- Description
- 87 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
- Summary
- "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." "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."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1879985039 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99014175^
- OCLC
- 40830133
- SCSB-11707004
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library