Marc Chagall on Art and Culture Russian Edition

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 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.

• Compiled by: Harshav, Benjamin; Translated by: Usova, Nina
• ISBN: 978-5-7516-0768-5
• Published: 2009
• Language: Russian
• Format: 5x8 Hardcover, 320 pp.

Марк Шагал об искусстве и культуре: под редакцией Бенджамина Харшава

В книге, составленной Бенджамином Харшавом, профессором сравнительного литературоведения Йейльского университета, впервые собраны вместе эссе, статьи, интервью и лекции великого еврейского художника Марка Шагала, в которых он высказывает свои взгляды на современное искусство и собственное творчество, на еврейскую культуру и на судьбы еврейства в ХХ веке в Европе и Израиле.