Marc Chagall

Chagall was the son of a herring merchant, born in Witebsk in White Russia, opposite a laundress and a chimney sweep. After the Revolution, while waiting for emigration papers, he wrote his autobiography at the age of 34. My Life reads like one of Chagall's paintings- emotional, fragmentary, humorous, colourful and dream-like, soaked in nostalgia for Jewish small-town society, familiar from 'The Fiddler on the Roof'. It combines a colourist's eye for detail, an artist's passion for life, a satirical sense of humour and a backdrop of Belle poque Paris and revolutionary Russia. The character sketches are magnificent. Chagall produced 50 illustrations, which accompany the text. The first English translation of My Life was published in 1965 and it has been in print ever since.

My Life

Ingo F. Walther

Rainer Metzger

Chagall

Le mille e una notte a colori

Edward Estlin Cummings

MAY I FEEL SAID HE is the third installment in Welcome's Art and Poetry Series, which celebrates the passions of life through unique pairings of words and art. Not intended for the immature, Cummings's poem is a sensually ecstatic tribute to love and the often humorous mating rituals of men and women. When coupled with Chagall's dreamlike images of floating lovers, circus performers, and mythical animals, this erotically charged ode achieves a visual and physical dimension that reinforces its underlying themes of expression, joy, and fulfillment.

Poem

May I Feel Said He

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Eighty illustrations, 60 in color, document this most celebrated phase ofhagall's career, during which he was forced by the First World War to remainn Russia, where he remained through the Bolshevik Revolution. The periodncludes his famous murals for the State Yiddish Chamber Theatre in Moscow.ccompanying essays discuss such topics as Chaga

Love and the Stage 1914-1922

with 42 colour plates after the lithographs

Daphnis And Chloe

Illustrationen zu Nikolai Gogol "Die toten Seelen"

Simon Baier

Josef Helfenstein

Alfred Bodenheimer

The Early Years, 1911-1919

Andreĭ Voznesenskiĭ

Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova

Marina Aleksandrovna Bessonova

From Russian and Private Collections

Chagall Discovered

Shearer West

This new work on Chagall by Dr. Shearer West analyses Chagall's work, taking into account the latest research.

Pierre Matisse Gallery (New York, N.Y.)

The Four Seasons, Gouaches; Paintings 1974-1975 [exhibition] May 1975

Jean Bloch Rosensaft

Chagall and the Bible

François Le Targat

From the Twentieth Century Masters series, a concise overview, a comprehensive visual survey.

The Light of Origins

Benjamin Harshav

Barbara Harshav

I︠A︡kov Aleksandrovich Tugendkholʹd

Abram Markovich Ėfros

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and culture. The documents and interviews shed light on his rich, versatile, and enigmatic art from within his own mental world. The book raises the problems of a multi-cultural artist with several intersecting identities and the tensions between modernist form and cultural representation in twentieth-century art. It reveals the travails and achievements of his life as a Jew in the twentieth century and his perennial concerns with Jewish identity and destiny, Yiddish literature, and the state of Israel. This collection includes annotations and introductions of the Chagall texts by the renowned scholar Benjamin Harshav that elucidate the texts and convey the changing cultural contexts of Chagall's life. Also featured is the translation by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav of the first book about Chagall's work, the 1918 Russian The Art of Marc Chagall.

Including the First Book on Chagall's Art by A. Efros and Ya. Tugendhold (Moscow, 1918)

Marc Chagall on Art and Culture

Abram Markovich ?fros

I︠U︡riĭ Aleksandrovich Rusakov

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Марк Шагал--книжный иллюстратор

"Zdravstvuĭ, rodina!"

Mark Shagal

Meticulous reproductions of works by one of the most distinctive and charismatic figures in 20th-century art. Richly diverse images range from a 1910 painting of the artist's personal studio to the dreamlike Bouquet and Red Circus, 1960. Masterpieces in miniature, these cards will captivate art lovers and postcard enthusiasts alike.

24 Ready-to-Mail Cards

Chagall Postcards

Marc Chagall

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