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Chagall A Biography

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ISBN-10: 037541455X

ISBN-13: 9780375414558

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jackie Wullschlager

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A pioneer of modernism and one of the great figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall is also beloved for the distinctively joyous and imaginative quality of his paintings. Yet until now he has not been the subject of a full-scale biography. Born poor in Russia in 1887, he was variously a revolutionary, a bureaucrat, a political refugee. But above all, he was an obsessive artist: learning, experimenting, and producing work of singular beauty and emotional depth. His subject, more often than not, was the shtetl life of his childhood-the wooden huts and synagogues, the fiddlers and rabbis-the lost world of Eastern European Jewry. Jackie Wullschlager brilliantly describes this…    
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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/21/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Size: 7.10" wide x 9.50" long x 1.80" tall
Weight: 2.684
Language: English