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My Life (Paperback, Da Capo Press)
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My Life (Paperback, Da Capo Press)
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Marc Chagall's memoir of his early life was written in 1922,
published in Paris in 1930 along with many drypoints and
watercolors, and now for the first time will appear here. Here, as
in his pictures, there are many sketches of the simple world of his
childhood in the ghetto near Witebsk-portraits of his family (a
large one)- of rabbis and teachers-of the little village where the
word artist had "never been pronounced". In 1907, he left for
Petersburg, then for Paris, where he lived in considerable poverty,
painted-while no one bought his canvases. He found impressionism
and cubism alien but developed the expressionistic style which was
so individually his. World War I returned him to Russia, to Witebsk
for a little while, and then on to Moscow where he did sets for the
new theatre- the phase which brings this first part of his
autobiographical reminiscence to its conclusion..... It is a
charming counterpoint to the twenty pictures which are threaded
through the text- one in which naivete and nostalgia are combined
and contribute to the warmth of feeling so openly evidenced.
(Kirkus Reviews)
My Life was written in Moscow in 1921-1922, when Chagall was
thirty-five years old. Although long out-of-print, it remains one
of the most extraordinarily inventive and beautifully told of all
autobiographies. The text is accompanied by twenty plates which
Chagall prepared especially to illustrate his life story. Together,
the words and pictures paint an incomparable portrait of one of the
greatest painters of this century, and of the now vanished milieu
which inspired him.
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