Author: Wilson, Jonathan
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Marc Chagall (Jewish Encounters)
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Schocken : March 2007
Seller ID: 56652
ISBN-13: 9780805242010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesNovelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel. Marc Chagall's work addresses these transforming events, but his ambivalence about his role as a Jewish artist adds an intriguing wrinkle to common assumptions about his life. Drawn to sacred subject matter, Chagall remains defiantly secular in outlook; determined to "narrate" the miraculous and tragic events of the Jewish past, he frequently chooses Jesus ...
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