Lawrence L. Langer (1929–2024)
Auteur de Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology
A propos de l'auteur
Lawrence L. Langer is Professor of English Emeritus at Simmons College in Boston.
Œuvres de Lawrence L. Langer
The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak (Distributed for Pucker Art Publications, Boston) (1999) 8 exemplaires
Importance of Wearing Clothes. 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1929
- Date de décès
- 2024-01-29
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
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Using and Abusing the Holocaust (Jewish Literature… par Lawrence L. Langer
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This proved to be a lodestar during my period of immersion. I beleive I checked this out from University for almost six months. I vividly recall certain chapters.
A heart-rending representation of the art that comes from tragedy. Art is something that in dark times, seems to flourish more readily as a way to document our experience. Where words cannot suffice to tell the tale, images can be the vehicle. I believe we connect visually in ways with another through art that often language often express.
NO OF PAGES: 300 SUB CAT I: Holocaust SUB CAT II: SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: The imaginative literature that grew out of the atrocities of WWII has resurrected not a dead age but an unspeakable one. The Holocaust bequeathed a legacy of physical horror and spiritual discontinuity that obliged writers to invent new ways of writing.NOTES: SUBTITLE:
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 20
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 670
- Popularité
- #37,680
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 39