Chess in Art Postscript: Looking Bakwards

[Scott Tortorice]

This is a good essay on one of my favorite chess artists, Samuel Bak:

Chess in Art Postscript: Looking Bakwards

Struggle against an unyielding foe: this is the aspect of chess that serves his purpose. Bak uses chess to metaphorise (if there is such a word) an unimaginable episode of his early life: the ghetto in Nazi-annexed Poland, the Holocaust, and post-war displacement. These childhood traumas are refracted into his art through the prism of chess.

I just found a new favorite, At War:

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I need to work this one into a blog entry.