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Marc Chagall and His Times
A Documentary Narrative
Barbara Harshav , Benjamin Harshav , Marc Chagall
Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers
The book reveals Chagalls endless curiosity, his forays in many directions beyond painting and drawing: public art, theater and ballet, stained glass windows in churches and synagogues, lithographs, etchings, and illustrations of literature and the Bible. We observe the intricate relations between Chagalls life and consciousness and the impact of his life on the iconography of his art. Thus, the book provides an indispensable key to the understanding of Chagalls often enigmatic art. Indeed, it is a contribution to the understanding of some of the central problems of Modern art, such as the question of originality, the interaction between the formal discoveries of the avant-garde and cultural or multi-cultural representation, and the relations between an artists art and his personal biography.
Renowned Israeli-American scholar Benjamin Harshav presents the first comprehensive investigation of Marc Chagalls life and consciousness after the classic 1961 biography by Chagalls son-in-law Franz Meyer. Harshavs narrative includes hundreds of private letters and documents written by Chagall and his contemporaries in Russian, Yiddish, French, English and other languages, translated by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav into English, and placed in their personal and historical context.
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