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Benjamin Harshav - Marc Chagall on Art and Culture - 9780804748308 - V9780804748308
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Marc Chagall on Art and Culture

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Description for Marc Chagall on Art and Culture Hardback. 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. Series: Contraversions: Jews & other differences. Num Pages: 240 pages, illus. BIC Classification: ABA; AGB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 463.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Series
Contraversions: Jews & other differences
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804748308
SKU
V9780804748308
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Ref
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About Benjamin Harshav
Benjamin Harshav is Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Among his many books is Language in Time of Revolution (Stanford, 1999). Barbara Harshav is Lecturer in the department of Comparative Literature at Yale University. She has translated into English over 20 books of fiction and nonfiction in French, German, Hebrew and Yiddish, including ... Read more

Reviews for Marc Chagall on Art and Culture
"[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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