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From generation to generation : paintings by Samuel Bak / Larence L. Langer.
- Title
- From generation to generation : paintings by Samuel Bak / Larence L. Langer.
- Author
- Langer, Lawrence L.
- Publication
- Boston : Pucker Art Publications, [2016]
- ©2016
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N7279.B24 A4 2016 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bak, Samuel
- Description
- 135 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- Samuel Bak's recent collection considers the hidden dialogue of generations, with the secret entanglement of different ages. It is indeed a playful cycle, whose playfulness, and even parody, becomes apparent to the beholder literate in Jewish memory and religious imagination. Bak's images are replete with allusions, citations, intimate references, playing with themes that are as intuitive as they are rooted in Jewish learning and tradition. In his illuminating essay, Lawrence Langer reminds us that Bak thinks of his work as 'learned paintings' disclosing themselves, like sacred texts, in layers of meaning corresponding to the layers of learning. Langer beautifully unravels some of their themes, taking us through the worlds of Torah and Chassidism, to the 'elsewhere' of the modern age.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781879985322
- 1879985322
- OCLC
- 965351891
- SCSB-10027065
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library