Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the
Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary
Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book
presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of Chagall's
public statements on art and culture. The documents and interviews
shed light on his rich, versatile, and enigmatic art from within
his own mental world. The book raises the problems of a
multi-cultural artist with several intersecting identities and the
tensions between modernist form and cultural representation in
twentieth-century art. It reveals the travails and achievements of
his life as a Jew in the twentieth century and his perennial
concerns with Jewish identity and destiny, Yiddish literature, and
the state of Israel. This collection includes annotations and
introductions of the Chagall texts by the renowned scholar Benjamin
Harshav that elucidate the texts and convey the changing cultural
contexts of Chagall's life. Also featured is the translation by
Benjamin and Barbara Harshav of the first book about Chagall's
work, the 1918 Russian The Art of Marc Chagall.
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