Samuel Bak

Othyoth II

   
Othyoth II
  • 1992
  • Oil on linen
  • 48 18 × 64 58 inches(122 × 164 cm)

  • Signed and dated lower left: BAK 92

  • Othyoth depicts the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments as floating in space and shattered into pieces, yet unmistakably bound as if by magnetic attraction.
    “I’m not interested so much in the man that God created, but in the God that man created,” says Bak. “I’m interested in the moral structure to human consciousness, and the tablets of the Ten Commandments represent this symbol. These laws are very important to keep the human person in a state of dignity, and in a state of protection, protected from their animal impulses. Now this moral consciousness has constantly been destroyed, reborn and destroyed. This sort of thing was represented again in the time of the Holocaust, and it still goes on, because wars go on, slaughter goes on, crimes go on.”
    Samuel Bak, Interview in Stuff Magazine, 1995

  • Themes:  Symbol/Letter

Exhibitions

SAMUEL BAK Sugrįžimas * Returning Home 2001 Vilnius, Nr. 109.

Literature

Between Worlds . Paintings and Drawings of SAMUEL BAK from 1946 to 2001 Alicia Craig Faxon, Lawrence L. Langer, Bernhard H. Pucker, Irene Tayler, Saul Touster, Samuel Bak 2002 Boston, MA, p. 213, ill. [hic 1996, size!]

Samuel Bak . Sugrįžimas * Returning Home Samuel Bak, Emanuelis Zingeris, Laima Laučkaitė, Al Atzmy 2001 Vilnius, p. 37, ill. (109)

Israel at Fifty 1998 Berkeley, CA, back cover

Angels from Elsewhere . The Paintings of Samuel Bak Patrick O'Donnell 1997 Exeter, NH / Boston,, p. 22, ill.

Samuel Bak . Landschaften jüdischer Erfahrung Eva Atlan, Samuel Bak, Amos Oz, Georg Heuberger 1993 Frankurt am Main, p. 7, ill.

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