Chagall : a biography / Jackie Wullschlager.
Wullschläger, Jackie.
2008
N 6999 .C46 W85 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Chagall : a biography / Jackie Wullschlager.
Author
Wullschläger, Jackie.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780375414558
037541455X
Publication Details
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Language
English
Description
xxii, 582 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Item Number
99931904079
Call Number
N 6999 .C46 W85 2008
Alternate Call Number
LI 21900
Dewey Decimal Classification
709.2 B
Summary
An insightful portrait of the Russian-born modernist artist describes his stunning studies of the lost world of Eastern European Jewry in his paintings of the shtetl life of his childhood, his pioneering role in twentieth-century art, his colorful personal life, and his lasting artistic legacy, in a study highlighted by more than forty reproductions of important paintings.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-562) and index.
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Part I. Russia : "My sad and joyful town": Vitebsk, 1887-1900
At Pen's: Vitebsk, 1900-1907
Forbidden city: St. Petersburg, 1907-1908
Thea: Vitebsk and St. Petersburg, 1908-1909
Belle: Vitebsk, 1909
Léon Bakst: St. Petersburg, 1909-1911
"Surnaturel!": Paris, 1911-1912
Blaise Cendrars: Paris, 1912-1913
"My ferocious genius": Paris, 1913-1914
Homecoming: Vitebsk, 1914-1915
Married man: Petrograd, 1915-1917
Commissar Chagall and Comrade Malevich: Vitebsk, 1917-1920
Chagall's box: Moscow, 1920-1922
Part II. Exile : Der Sturm: Berlin, 1922-1923
Dead souls: Paris, 1923-1924
"Lumière-Liberté": Paris, 1924-1927
The prophets: Paris, 1928-1933
Wandering Jew: Paris, 1934-1937
White crucifixion: Paris and Gordes, 1937-1941
America: New York, 1941-1944
Virginia: New York and High Falls, 1944-1948
Return to Europe: Orgeval and Vence, 1948-1952
Vava: Vence, 1952-1960
Decade of the large wall: Vence and St. Paul, 1960-1970
"I was a good artist, wasn't I?": St. Paul, 1971-1985.

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