Marc Chagall

by Jonathan Wilson

Book Overview

Part of the Jewish Encounter series Novelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel. Marc Chagall's work addresses these transforming events, but his ambivalence about his role as a Jewish artist adds an intriguing wrinkle to common assumptions about his life. Drawn to sacred subject matter, Chagall...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805242015
• ISBN13: 9780805242010
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

A Short Chagall

A nice short study of Marc Chagall's personal life (wives, children, and homes) and of his essential cultural roots including religious inspirations and conflicts. Chagall was fated to live a long life amidst a century of enormous social turmoil and with direct emotional ties to countries in the middle of the storms --- the USSR, France, U.S. and Israel. Professor Wilson is a fine writer with an eye for the arresting detail. His book is a very good overview of the complex life of a great artist. (Readers will have to refer to the Internet or art books for the actual paintings referred to in this text---unless happily they have already in person viewed the work of Marc Chagall.)