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This title presents a series of some 50 color plates of chess-inspired landscapes, in the artist's words, ""images of a world of chess after the universal flood, when hardly anything remained intact...a world where things disintegrate"", an effort at ""seizing the moment, before it is too late and all proof is lost,"" prefaced by an essay in which Holocaust literary scholar Lawrence L. Langer explicates the multiple meanings of Bak's imagery.

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Lawrence L. Langer is Alumnae Chair Professor of English Emeritus at Simmons College. His publications include The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory, Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology, and Preempting the Holocaust. Samuel Bak had the first exhibition of his drawings at the age of nine in the Vilna ghetto. Escaping after its destruction, he emigrated to Israel, where he studied at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. Now an internationally prominent artist living in the Boston area, Bak has had solo exhibitions of his work at galleries in the United States, Israel and Europe. Landscapes of Jewish Experience: Paintings by Samuel Bak, with essay and commentary by Lawrence L. Langer, was published in 1997.

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