Mark Podwal Archives - Richard McBee

Contemporary Book Art and Hebrew Texts: MOBIA

July 29, 2013

Contemporary Book Art and Hebrew Texts The “book” is a mighty big place these days and the current exhibition at MOBIA, As Subject and Object: Contemporary Book Artists Explore Sacred Hebrew Texts is no exception. Highly mobile eBooks compete with online publications and traditionally bound…

Old and New: Mark Podwal’s Textiles for the Altneuschul in Prague

July 29, 2013

Old and New: Mark Podwal’s Textiles for the Altneuschul in Prague Mark Podwal is a busy, busy man. When I wrote that in these pages in September, 2010 it is now clear I didn’t know the half of it… witness his current exhibition at Yeshiva…

Podwal’s Books

July 28, 2013

Podwal’s Books Mark Podwal is a busy, busy man. He has spent the last 38 years making every conceivable kind of art: innumerable paintings, 28 illustrated books written by him and the likes of Elie Wiesel, Harold Bloom and Francine Prose, children’s books, Haggadot, ceramics…

Podwal’s Lamentations

July 12, 2012

The Book of Lamentations: Illustrated by Mark Podwal In 1974 Mark Podwal, noted author, illustrator and physician, created a spare, illustrated Book of Lamentations. This complete English translation is graced with 28 black and white illustrations, or more correctly, reflections, on the tragic text. Podwal…