Description
Book SynopsisThis work presents a biography of the artist Marc Chagall in dialogue with events and ideologies of his time. It encompasses different aspects of his life (1889-1985) including his roots in folk culture, his personal relationships and his inerests.
Trade Review"Yale University's Professor Benjamin Harshav is the preeminent Jewish culture critic today. His writings on Israel, the Holocaust, and the Hebrew and Yiddish languages are among the most illuminating, instructive, and inspiring in the genre that covers those disparate subjects. But he has outdone himself with this absolutely unique volume on painter Marc Chagall which runs more than a thousand pages. Although referred to as a biography, Harshav's work is far more ambitious." --
The Jewish Tribune"[
Marc Chagall on Art and Culture and
Marc Chagall and His Times] represent important contributions to the fields of art history, twentieth-century history, and Russian studies, and
Marc Chagall and His Times in particular will, I suspect, be a standard work for those studying Chagall's life for years to come." -- Canadian Journal of History/ Annales canadiennes of d'histoire
