(P/B) MARC CHAGALL,1887-1985

Παρουσίαση

Marc Chagall: poet, dreamer, exotic apparition. Throughout his long life, the role of outsider and artistic eccentric came naturally to him. Chagall seemed a kind of intermediary between worlds: whether as a Jew with a lordly disdain for the ancient ban on image-making, or as a Russian who went beyond the realm of familiar self-sufficiency, or as the son of poor parents, growing up in a large and needy family, yet going on to establish himself in the sophisticated world of elegant artistic salons. The potential for assimilation and the liberality that distinguish Western culture are best assessed by its responses to outsiders; and Chagall personified the singular charm of the outsider his whole life long. His biography was far from everyday, and its reflection in his art took on the form of strange images. His life and art together added up to this image of a lonesome visionary, a citizen of the world with much of the child still in him, a stranger lost in wonder - an image which the artist did everything to cultivate. Profoundly religious and with a deep love of the homeland, his work is arguably the most urgent appeal for tolerance and respect of all that is different that modern times could make. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

RUSSIA: THE EARLY YEARS 1887-1910
THE PARIS YEARS 1910-1914
WAR AND REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA 1914-1923
FRANCE AND AMERICA 1923-1948
THE LATE WORK 1948-1985
MARC CHAGALL 1887-1985: A CHRONOLOGY