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Chagall: connu et inconnu
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ISBN: 2711846636 9782711846634 Year: 2003 Publisher: Paris Réunion des musées nationaux


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Chagall
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ISBN: 0876330626 0297785486 0297786326 Year: 1985 Publisher: London Royal Academy of Arts

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Marc Chagall and his times: a documentary narrative
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ISBN: 0804742146 0804742138 9780804742139 9780804742146 Year: 2004 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press

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"This book presents a new and comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century in dialogues with the events and ideologies of his time. It 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. The narrative encompasses Chagall's long life (1887-1985) in Russia, France, and the United States, as well as in Germany and Israel. It also explores his deep roots in folk culture, his personal relationships and loves, and his involvement with the art of the Russian Revolution, Surrealism, Communism, Zionism, Yiddish literature, and the State of Israel. The book exposes the complex relationships between Chagall's three cultural identities: Jewish, Russian, and French. It is a biography of the turbulent times of the twentieth century and the transformations of a Jew in it - his meteoric rise from the "ghetto" of the Russian Pale of Settlement to the centers of modern culture." "Marc Chagall and His Times provides a major contribution to the understanding of some of the central problems of modern art: originality, the interaction between the formal discoveries of the avant garde and cultural or multi-cultural representation, and the relations between an artist's art and his personal biography."--Jacket.

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