Marc Chagall (Jewish Encounters Series)

Wilson, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0805242015 / ISBN 13: 9780805242010

Edité par Schocken, New York, 2007

A propos de cet article

Hardcover, color frontispiece, xi, 238 pp., b/w photos, unclipped illustrated jacket. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Brief gift note dated 2014 thanking previous owner "for leading us on the path of Jewish education." Minimal wear, clean text, tight binding, nice jacket. Marc Chagall [1887-1985], an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust and the birth of the state of Israel.

N° de réf. du vendeur 025778

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Marc Chagall (Jewish Encounters Series)
• Éditeur: Schocken, New York
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0805242015
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780805242010
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Art
  • History/Biography

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Synopsis

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 remains defiantly secular in outlook; determined to “narrate” the miraculous and tragic events of the Jewish past, he frequently chooses Jesus as a symbol of martyrdom and sacrifice.

Wilson brilliantly demonstrates how Marc Chagall’s life constitutes a grand canvas on which much of twentieth-century Jewish history is vividly portrayed. Chagall left Belorussia for Paris in 1910, at the dawn of modernism, looking back dreamily on the world he abandoned. After his marriage to Bella Rosenfeld in 1915, he moved to Petrograd, but eventually returned to Paris after a stint as a Soviet commissar for art. Fleeing Paris steps ahead of the Nazis, Chagall arrived in New York in 1941. Drawn to Israel, but not enough to live there, Chagall grappled endlessly with both a nostalgic attachment to a vanished past and the magnetic pull of an uninhibited secular present.

Wilson’s portrait of Chagall is altogether more historical, more political, and edgier than conventional wisdom would have us believe–showing us how Chagall is the emblematic Jewish artist of the twentieth century.

Visit nextbook.org/chagall for a virtual museum of Chagall images.

À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan Wilson is the author of A Palestine Affair, The Hiding Room, Schoom, and An Ambulance Is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble; and of two critical studies of the fiction of Saul Bellow. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Best American Short Stories, among other publications. A professor of English at Tufts University, he lives with his family in Newton, Massachusetts.