Author

Publication

2001 - In conjuction with Pucker Art Publications, Bloomington, Indiana

Language

English

Word Count

125,000 words, Guess

Page Count

500 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100253340489
  • ISBN-139780253340481
  • LibraryThing43905
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001039494
  • OCLC Control Number47650718
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780253340481
  • Open LibraryOL18167287M

Classifications

  • LCCND979.B27 A2 2001
  • LCCND979.B27A2 2001

Description

"Samuel Bak is a renowned artist whose works have been exhibited in museums worldwide. In Painted in Words Bak sets aside his brushes to narrate the stories of his life - as a child in Nazi-occupied Vilna, as a youth in European refugee camps, and as a maturing artist in Israel, France, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. Lovingly, he evokes his departed parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles, along with their household employees, to create a vital gallery of dramatic, lyrical, epic, and sometimes absurd heroes. With gentle humor, the child prodigy of the faraway past and the accomplished artist of today engage in a spirited dialogue from which emerges a self-portrait of the "Artist as a Young - and middle-aged and aging - Survivor.""--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

MARCH 4, 1999. WESTON NEAR BOSTON. A gentle light filters into the room.

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography

Other Editions

  • Painted in words: a memoirIn conjuction with Pucker Art Publications2001-01-01

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