{"product_id":"art-and-life-the-story-of-samuel-bak-9781879985469","title":"Art and Life: The Story of Samuel Bak","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArt \u0026amp; Life: The Story of Samuel Bak\u003c\/i\u003e traces the development of a child prodigy deeply shaped by the catastrophic events of the Shoah, from his early artistic influences to his years in the Vilna Ghetto and Landsberg DP Camp, his formal training in Israel and Paris, and his fruitful art career in Rome, New York, Switzerland, and Boston. Augmenting the rich existing literature on Bak, Art \u0026amp; Life explores—in thoughtful prose and through reproductions of both iconic and rarely seen work created between 1942 and 2022—how he navigated the prevailing art trends of the mid-twentieth century in search of his own pictorial language. It considers the personal, historical, and artistic currents that led Bak, now aged 90, to create an astonishing body of work that bears witness to cataclysmic events, embodies our common humanity of suffering and hope, and poses questions about the repair of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike the inexorable visions of Dante and Milton, Samuel Bak’s  uncontainable cascades of unparalleled images plumb the deeps of the  moral imagination. A deluge of genius, they are more than merely  rending; they are silencing. They catch at the throat and strangle, they  burn with history’s meaning, they strike hard against metaphysical  ease. To gaze at Bak’s art is to learn to see and to feel and to know.\" - Cynthia Ozick, critic and author of \u003cem\u003eCritics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Pucker Gallery,US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51864132550999,"sku":"9781879985469","price":58.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781879985469.jpg?v=1759921611","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/art-and-life-the-story-of-samuel-bak-9781879985469","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}