The game continues
chess in the art of Samuel Bak
by Lawrence L. Langer
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"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."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Chess in art, Criticism and interpretation, ChessPeople
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The game continues: chess in the art of Samuel Bak
1999, Pucker Art Publications in association with Indiana University Press, Bloomington
in English
1879985039 9781879985032
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