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

About the author

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 The Labor of Life: Selected Plays by Hanoch Levin (Stanford 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 a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and culture.

Product details

• Authors: Marc Chagall, Barbara Harshav, Benjamin Harshav
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2003
• EAN: 9780804748308
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4830-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 239 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 463 g
• Series: Contraversions Jews and Other; Contraversions: Jews and Other; Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries