Marc Chagall on Art and Culture
Marc Chagall on Art and Culture 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…
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Marc Chagall on Art and Culture
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. The documents and interviews shed light on his rich, versatile, and enigmatic art from within his own mental world. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and culture.
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. 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. This collection includes annotations and introductions of the Chagall texts by the renowned