Marc Chagall remains one of the most popular and influential artists of the 20th century. His work is part of permanent collections of major museums all over the world. Chagall’s journey as an artist led him from a small village in pre-revolutionary Russia to Paris, Israel, and New York. Influenced by Russian folklore and the Jewish tradition, Chagall introduced a new set of symbols and images in the world of painting. Fantastic images met religious symbolism in a whole new way. This book chronicles Chagall’s life story and art with high quality reproductions of his paintings, analysis of the work, and illustrations and photographs of the era.
A remarkable biography of Chagall, exploring both his tremendous lifelong output of art, and the lush artistic world in which he lived. Pozzi strives to make the biography accessible right from the outset, introducing major ``characters''-- Chagall's wife, art dealers, and his friends--in pictures and caption biographies. Text and illustrations play equal roles throughout, recounting the artist's childhood in the small Russian town of Vitebsk, through his adult life in Paris, his marriage, and old age. Pozzi is careful to point out facets of the art (the Eiffel Tower, symbols of Judaism) that are also symbols of Chagall's experiences. Along with the many full-color reproductions (which, typical of the Masters of Art series, are often too small to do the paintings justice) of his work, there are numerous reproductions of art by his contemporaries, enveloping readers in the ideas of the times and introducing them to artists they may not yet know. (chronology, index) (Biography. 9-13)
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