About
Where Jewish Memory Learned to Dream in Color.
Marc Chagall painted a world where lovers float, fiddlers play on rooftops, animals become storytellers, and the villages of his childhood drift between memory and dream.
Born into a Jewish family in Vitebsk, in what was then the Russian Empire, Chagall carried the people, rituals, folklore, and visual language of Jewish life with him throughout his career. Even as he moved through the centers of European modernism, his work remained unmistakably his own: deeply personal, fantastical, colorful, and rooted in the world he came from.
This compact introduction traces that extraordinary visual language across his paintings, bringing together the floating figures, musicians, roosters, flowers, lovers, Torah scrolls, and memories that made Chagall one of the most recognizable artists of the 20th century.
There are artists whose work you learn about. Chagall feels more like an artist whose world you enter.
And what a beautiful, strange, impossible world it is.
Details
- Hardcover
- 96 pages
- 8.3" × 10.2"
- 1.25 lb
- English-language edition
- Authors: Ingo F. Walther and Rainer Metzger
- Basic Art Series
- Published by TASCHEN
- ISBN: 978-3-8365-2783-5
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