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In this series of paintings and drawings, Lady Just Is appears in varying conditions, poses, and garbs juxtaposed with familiar biblical and secular symbols of covenant in states of ruination: faded and cobbled rainbows, disintegrating Mosaic tablets of law, unblinking and stony eyes, sagging and unkempt blindfolds, defunct and imbalanced scales.

Considers the hidden dialogue of generations, with the secret entanglement of different ages. It is indeed a playful cycle, whose playfulness, and even parody, becomes apparent to the beholder literate in Jewish memory and religious imagination. Bak's images are replete with allusions, citations, intimate references, playing with themes that are as intuitive as they are rooted in Jewish tradition.

A mobile artist, Mark Davis was drawn to the act of creating as a young boy. The discovery of Alexander Calder's work had a deep influence on Davis's early work, and has had a consistent presence throughout his career. In this lavishly illustrated volume, plants, animals, humans, and landscapes develop within the brightly colored and abstracted shapes that make up Davis's body of work today.

An examination of Samuel Bak's collection of paintings. It describes Bak's art that 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.

Showcases the distinctive work of one of the most innovative artists. Samuel Bak's series of paintings, ""New Perceptions of Old Appearances"", is a tribute to the power of the metaphorical imagination. In this book - filled with color illustrations - the author shows the versatility and uniqueness of Bak's art.

The art of Samuel Bak depicts a world destroyed and yet provisionally pieced back together. Across nearly seven decades of artistic production Samuel Bak has explored and reworked a set of metaphors, a visual grammar and vocabulary, that ultimately privileges questions.