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Marc Chagall on art and culture : including the first book on Chagall's art by A. Efros and Ya. Tugendhold (Moscow, 1918) / Benjamin Harshav, editor ; translations from French, Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav.
Fine Arts Library N6999.C46 A35 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Hebrew
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985--Written works.
- Chagall, Marc.
- Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985--Aesthetics.
- Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985--Criticism and interpretation.
- Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 225 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Texts of a Multicultural Artist / Benjamin Harshav 1
- 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
- Unity
- 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
- Art After the Holocaust: July-August 1947 108
- For the Slaughtered Artists: 1950 113
- 4. Revival: 1951-1960 117
- Words in Jerusalem: June 1951 117
- To Israel: July 19, 1951 119
- Farewell to Israel: July 20, 1951 121
- A. Sutzkever
- Poet and Symbol: 1950, 1955 123
- Art and Life: March 1958 126
- The Erasmus Prize: 1960 138
- 5. Beyond Painting: 1952-1966 143
- On Ceramics: 1952 143
- On Engraving and Lithography: 1960 144
- The Stained Glass Windows in Jerusalem: 1962 145
- The Crisis of Color: 1963 147
- The Ceiling of the Paris Opera: 1964 151
- The Circus: 1966 152
- 6. The Last Years: 1967-1985 155
- Dialogue in the Louvre with Pierre Schneider: 1967 155
- On the First Day of the Six-Day War: 1967 168
- Our Streets of Vitebsk and Vilna: 1967, 1969 169
- About the Yiddish Poet Elkhonen Vogler 170
- On the Death of Elkhonen Vogler 170
- The Tapestries in the Knesset in Jerusalem: August 1969 171
- The Biblical Message: 1973 172
- 7. The First Book on Marc Chagall: 1918 175
- A. Efros and Ya. Tugendhold: The Art of Marc Chagall 175
- Abram Efros: The Emperor's Clothes 176
- Ya. Tugendhold: The Artist Marc Chagall 178
- Abram Efros: Chagall 188
- I. The Nature of His Art 188
- II. The Palette. Graphics 198.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-219) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804748306
- 0804748314
- OCLC:
- 51969019
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