2003, ISBN: fc43a8c74cdd626d0c8320469712a2e5

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. First Edition, Third Impression. . Hardback. Very Good/Good. First edition, third printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 23.5 × 16cm, 22… More...

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. First Edition, Third Impression. . Hardback. Very Good/Good. First edition, third printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 23.5 × 16cm, 225pp. 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. Condition: The book itself is in very good condition, the dustwrapper with some light wear., Stanford University Press, 2003, 2.75<

2003, ISBN: fc43a8c74cdd626d0c8320469712a2e5

Hardcover

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA], Jacket, First edition, third printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 23.5 × 16cm, 225pp. This book presents for th… More...

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA], Jacket, First edition, third printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 23.5 × 16cm, 225pp. 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. Condition: The book itself is in very good condition, the dustwrapper with some light wear., Books<