The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak (Distributed for Pucker Art Publications, Boston) - Tapa dura

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.

""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.