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  • Adam and Eve in the Art of Samuel Bak by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    Adam and Eve in the Art of Samuel Bak

    In Pucker Art Publications' twelfth book on the art of Samuel Bak, the artist collaborates with Lawrence L. Langer to explore the book of Genesis, the search for identity, and that first couple: Adam and Eve. Bak's 120 paintings depicting the couple as travelers,...
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  • Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays

    In the face of the Holocaust, writes Lawrence L. Langer, our age clings to the stable relics of faded eras, as if ideas like natural innocence, innate dignity, the inviolable spirit, and the triumph of art over reality were immured in some kind of...
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  • Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology

    Art from the Ashes provides the most far-reaching collection of art, drama, poetry, and prose about the Holocaust ever presented in a single volume. Through the works of men and women, Jews and non-Jews, this anthology offers a vision of the human reality of...
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  • Figuring Out: Paintings by Samuel Bak 2017-2022 by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    Figuring Out: Paintings by Samuel Bak 2017-2022

    Those familiar with the artistic lexicon of Samuel Bak will recognize many of the symbols present in the series Figuring Out, but they will also meet and explore a new cast of characters. Human figures in many guises navigate a search for identity in...
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  • Hierarchy and Mutuality in Paradise Lost, Moby-Dick and The Brothers Karamazov by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    Hierarchy and Mutuality in Paradise Lost, Moby-Dick and The Brothers Karamazov

    The three works considered in Hierarchy and Mutuality in Paradise Lost, Moby-Dick and The Brothers Karamazov display a striking overlap in their concern with hierarchy and mutuality as parallel and often intersecting way of how human beings relate to each other and to divine...
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  • Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory

    Winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism This important an original book is the first sustained analysis of the unique ways in which oral testimony of survivors contributes to our understanding of the Holocaust. It also sheds light on the...
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  • Ner OT: Candles in the Art of Samuel Bak by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    Ner OT: Candles in the Art of Samuel Bak

    In the art of Samuel Bak, familiar objects fracture before our eyes, abandoning their traditional functions to become metaphors for a dissonant, broken world. Inhabitants of a surrealistic space, Bak's candles are abused, damaged, melting, lifeless, and bathed in the somber afterglow of profound...
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  • New Perceptions of Old Appearances in the Art of Samuel Bak by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    New Perceptions of Old Appearances in the Art of Samuel Bak

    Samuel Bak's series of paintings, New Perceptions of Old Appearances, is a tribute to the power of the metaphorical imagination. His pears play many roles, challenging the viewer to interpret their enigmatic presences without having to search for a single dogmatic meaning. They are...
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  • Preempting the Holocaust by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    Preempting the Holocaust

    Lawrence L. Langer, perhaps the most important literary critic of the Holocaust, here explores the use of Holocaust themes in literature, memoirs, film, and painting. Among the authors he examines are Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, and Simon Wiesenthal. He appraises...
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  • Remembering: The Gifts of Samuel Bak by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    Remembering: The Gifts of Samuel Bak

    The Samuel Bak Gallery and Learning Center in Loving Memory of Hope Silber Kaplan at the Holocaust Museum Houston is a destination for a richly diverse general public, the country's academic community, and Holocaustscholars from around the world. Bak's legacy at HMH is demonstrated...
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  • Return to Vilna in the Art of Samuel Bak by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    Return to Vilna in the Art of Samuel Bak

    This book is a tribute to the artist's return to his birthplace, to the place of his childhood, once filled with happiness; to the streets of his tenuous survival during World War II; and to the memorial for his grandparents and father. Bak's journey...
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  • The Afterdeath of the Holocaust by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    The Afterdeath of the Holocaust

    1. The Afterdeath of the Holocaust2. My Life with Holocaust Death3. Redemptive and Unredemptive Holocaust Memory4. Representing and Misrepresenting the Holocaust5. Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After6. Holocaust Fact and Holocaust Fiction: The Dual Vision of H.G. Adler7. Beyond Testimony: The Literary Design of Primo...
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  • The Afterdeath of the Holocaust by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    The Afterdeath of the Holocaust

    1. The Afterdeath of the Holocaust2. My Life with Holocaust Death3. Redemptive and Unredemptive Holocaust Memory4. Representing and Misrepresenting the Holocaust5. Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After6. Holocaust Fact and Holocaust Fiction: The Dual Vision of H.G. Adler7. Beyond Testimony: The Literary Design of Primo...
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  • The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination

    "The immense service that Langer's careful, thoughtful, immensely intelligent and restrained study renders is that the esthetics of atrocity cease to be an exclusive domain of the victims. Many of his writers are not Jewish and several were not imprisoned or interned, and yet...
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  • Told & Foretold: The Cup in the Art of Samuel Bak by Langer, Lawrence L.
    Lawrence L. Langer

    Told & Foretold: The Cup in the Art of Samuel Bak

    In his latest series of paintings featuring images of cups, Samuel Bak proves once again that he is a master of the collapsing visual metaphor. His images do not vanish from the canvas, but they lose their integrity, groping for a form that will...
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