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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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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
  • Bak, Samuel > Criticism and interpretation
  • Chess in art
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