Samuel Bak

In Painted in Words, Samuel Bak sets aside his brushes to narrate the story 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 Young — and middle-aged and aging — Survivor."

• Published by Pucker Art Publications, Boston, MA, 2001

• Distributed by Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN

• Slip cased hardcover book, 9.25 x 6.25"

• 500 pages with full color images

• ISBN: 0-253-340480-0

• Price: $40.00 + $10.00 shipping