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Icon of Loss
In this examination of Samuel Bak’s most recent collection of paintings inspired by the little boy from the famous Stroop Report photo taken in the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943. Gary A. Phillips and Danna Nolan Fewell consider the historical and visual implications of this iconic image and its contemporary evocations. A survivor of the Vilna liquidation and a child prodigy whose first exhibition was held in the Vilna Ghetto at age nine, Bak weaves together personal history and Jewish history to articulate an iconography of his Holocaust experience. Bak’s art preserves memory of the twentieth-century ruination of Jewish life and culture by way of an artistic passion and precision that stubbornly announces the creativity of the human spirit.
Representing the Irreparable
Where there is still life: sketching the life of Samuel Bak / Bernard H. Pucker -- What, how, and when: on my art and myself -- Samuel Bak -- Myth, midrash and mysticism: the painting of Samuel Bak / Michael Fishbane -- Skeptical visions and scriptural truths: Bak's Genesis paintings / Lawrence L. Langer -- Bak's dreams: painting as midrash / Alicia Ostriker -- Seeing words, reading images: allegory and interpretation in Bak and Benjamin / S. Brent Rodriguez Plate -- Genesis, genocide, and the art of Samuel Bak: "unseamly" reading after the Holocaust / Danna Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips -- Bak's impossible memorials: giving face to the children / Danna Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips -- Iconoclash and akedah / Yvonne Sherwood -- Images of disaster: survival and the impossible in the artwork of Samuel Bak and the Book of Job / Dan Mathewson -- The end of time: Bak's art, Messiaen's music, and Levinas's ethics / Charles Rix -- Labyrinths: a response / Samuel Bak.
Return to Vilna
Examines the Holocaust art of Samuel Bak, who escaped the nightmare of history that consumed his family and the rest of Vilna Jewry during World War II.
Phil Rogers
He is content to work within the larger world tradition of producing solid, well-made vessels that bear a more subtle mark of creativity than the idiosyncratic works of more overtly individualistic ceramists. Whereas there is a movement in studio ceramics artists to treat clay either as a convenient medium for sculpture or as a three-dimensional canvas for painting, Rogers has made his mark with an integrated approach to ceramic art: clay, form, glaze, and decoration all combining to create a harmonious whole." "This book, with an in-depth interview with the artist, and full-color illustrations throughout, will allow the reader to appreciate the historical context and profound beauty of contemporary fine art pottery."--BOOK JACKET.
Marketing to PrimeTime Women
When the book PrimeTime Women, was first published in 2007 the oldest Baby Boomers had just turned 60, and the youngest Boomers were still in their mid-40s. Now ALL Boomer women are in the PrimeTime years, age 50⿿75. Collectively, they are the healthiest, wealthiest, most educated, active, and influential generation of women in history. Baby boomers are the largest and wealthiest demographic and at the peak of their spending power. What marketing and sales professionals might not realize is that the majority of this spending power is wielded by women! As they enter their 50s, Boomer women are confident, active, engaged and arguably happier than they have ever been, with time to pursue new ...
Skate Life
"Intellectually deft and lively to read, Skate Life is an important addition to the literature on youth cultures, contemporary masculinity, and the role of media in identity formation." ---Janice A. Radway, Northwestern University, author of Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature "With her elegant research design and sophisticated array of anthropological and media studies approaches, Emily Chivers Yochim has produced one of the best books about race, gender, and class that I have read in the last ten years. In a moment where celebratory studies of youth, youth subcultures, and their relationship to media abound, this book stands as a brilliantly argued analysis of th...
The Republic of Ragusa: An Episode of the Turkish Conquest
The Republic of Ragusa is an immersive historical textbook about the Italian involvement in the Turkish Conquest. Learn about the town of Ragusa, then an aristocratic maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik, and its involvement in the war. Contents: "THE FOUNDATION AND EARLY HISTORY OF THE CITY (656-1204), VENETIAN SUPREMACY: I.—THE CONSTITUTION AND THE LAWS (1204-1276), VENETIAN SUPREMACY: II.—SERBIAN AND BOSNIAN WARS (1276-1358), THE TRADE OF RAGUSA..."
The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon
In this ambitious book, Girard employs the latest tools of the historian's craft, multi-archival research in particular, and applies them to the climactic yet poorly understood last years of the Haitian Revolution. Haiti lost most of its archives to neglect and theft, but a substantial number of documents survive in French, U.S., British, and Spanish collections, both public and private. In all, this book relies on contemporary military, commercial, and administrative sources drawn from nineteen archives and research libraries on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Expanding Earth
Developments in Geotectonics, 10: The Expanding Earth focuses on the principles, methodologies, transformations, and approaches involved in the expanding earth concept. The book first elaborates on the development of the expanding earth concept, necessity for expansion, and the subduction myth. Discussions focus on higher velocity under Benioff zone, seismic attenuation, blue schists and paired metamorphic belts, dispersion of polygons, arctic paradox, and kinematic contrast. The manuscript then ponders on the scale of tectonic phenomena, non-uniformitarianism, tectonic profiles, and paleomagnetism. Concerns cover global paleomagnetism, general summary of the tectonic profile, implosions, fl...
The Days of the French Revolution
A “well-written, lucid, and vivid” recounting of the battles, beheadings, and other dramatic events that changed modern history (The Washington Post). Works from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo to Citizens by Simon Schama have been inspired by the French Revolution. The Days of the French Revolution brings to life the events that changed the future of Western civilization. As compelling as any fiction thriller, this real-life drama moves from the storming of the Bastille to the doomed court of Louis XVI, the salon of Madame Roland, and even the boudoir of Marie Antoinette. Christopher Hibbert, author of The House of Medici and other histories and biographies, recounts the events that swirled around Napoleon, Mirabeau, Danton, Marat, and Robespierre with eyewitness accounts and his “usual grace and flair for divulging interesting detail” (Booklist). “A remarkably good writer.” —The New York Times Includes illustrations
