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Chagall

A lively and comprehensive examination of the prodigious output of Chagall.

Monica Bohm-Duchen

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Chagall

Overview
  • A lively and comprehensive examination of the prodigious output of Marc Chagall (1887-1985), not only in painting but also book illustration, theatre design, stained glass and poetry
  • The first survey of Chagall's work to take full advantage of new material available to the West since glasnost
  • Follows Chagall from his Russian-Jewish childhood, through his encounter with the Parisian avant-garde and his activities in revolutionary Russia, to his later years in America and the South of France


Specifications
  • Paperback
  • English
  • 220 x 160 mm, 8 5/8 x 6 1/4 in
  • 352 pp
  • 181 colour illustrations, 47 black and white illustrations
  • ISBN-13: 9780714831602
  • ISBN-10: 0714831603

About the book
In this lively and comprehensive book, Monica Bohm-Duchen examines Marc Chagall's prodigious output, not only in painting but also in book illustration, theatre design, stained glass and poetry. She follows Chagall from his Russian-Jewish childhood, through his encounter with the Parisian avant-garde and his activities in revolutionary Russia, to his later years in America and the South of France. This is the first ever survey to take full advantage of new material made available to the West since glasnost.


In The Press

'Immediately becomes the most useful introduction to Chagall.' (Independent on Sunday)

'Highly informative. This book is the most even-handed to date in dealing with the later work.' (Burlington Magazine)

'Solid, expansive, eminently readable, and suitably provocative.' (Art Review)

'A lively, witty text.' (Jewish Chronicle)

'Art & Ideas has broken new ground in making accessible authoritative views on periods, movements and concepts in art. As a series it represents a real advance in publishing.' (Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate London)

'The format is wonderful and offers what had long been missing in academic studies: usable manuals for specific themes or periods...I am definitely not alone in welcoming Art & Ideas as a precious set of teaching tools.' (Joachim Pissarro, Yale University)



About the author(s)
Monica Bohm-Duchen is known for her work as an organizer of exhibitions and as a lecturer and writer on twentieth-century art. She is author of The Nude and Understanding Modern Art, and contributor to the catalogue: Chagall, Love and the Stage (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1998).

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