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. This book presents 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. It 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. Also featured is the translation of the first book about Chagall's work, the 1918 Russian "The Art of Marc Chagall".

ISBN	0804748306	Pages	240
ISBN13	9780804748308 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Stanford University Press	Weight (grammes)	454
Imprint	Stanford University Press	Published in	Palo Alto
Format	Hardback	Series title	Contraversions: Jews & other differences
Publication date	31 Jul 2003	Height (mm)	229
Library of Congress	N6999.C46	Width (mm)	159
DEWEY	709.2	Spine width (mm)	25
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

	Preface
	Introduction: The Texts of a Multicultural Artist by Benjamin Harshav	1
	An Outline of Chagall's Life	3
	The Modern Jewish Revolution	17
	Questions of Identity	22
1	In Revolutionary Russia: 1918-1922	27
	Art on the Anniversary of October: November 7, 1918	28
	The Revolution in Art: March-April 1919	30
	My Work in the Moscow Yiddish Chamber Theater: 1921-1928	33
	On Jewish Art - Leaves from My Notebook: 1922	38
2	In Paris Between the World Wars: 1923-1941	41
	How I Got to Know Peretz: 1925	41
	On Modern Art: 1931	43
	With Bialik in Eretz-Israel: 1934	51
	On a Jewish Art Museum: 1929, 1935	54
	Speech at the World Conference of the Yiddish Scientific Institute: 1935	56
	Artists and Jewish Artists: April 10, 1939	60
3	World War II and the Holocaust: 1941-1950	65
	Some Impressions Regarding French Painting: 1943, 1946	65
	James Johnson Sweeney: An Interview with Marc Chagall: 1944	79
	Unit - Symbol of Our Salvation: February 1944	87
	To My City Vitebsk: February 1944	91
	Two Kinds of Art - Poetry: April 30, 1944	93
	To the Paris Artists: December 1944	101
	The End of the War: May 1945	102
	To the Jewish People in Paris: June 1946	104
	"Comfort Ye My People ...": July 1946	105
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"["Marc Chagall on Art and Culture" and "Marc Chagall and His Times"] represent important contributions to the fields of art history, twentieth-century history, and Russian studies, and "Marc Chagall and His Times" in particular will, I suspect, be a standard work for those studying Chagall's life for years to come."--"Canadian Journal of History/ Annales canadiennes of d'histoire"

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