Chagall
Subtitle: love and exile
By: Jackie Wullschlager
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780713996524
Subjects: Artists; Biography; Konstnärer; Biografi
Description: Presents an account of Chagall, the man and the artist - and of a life as intense, theatrical and haunting as his paintings. This book draws on numerous interviews with the artist's family, friends, dealers, collectors, and illustrated with two hundred paintings, drawings and photographs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-528) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Part one: Russia (1. 'My sad and joyful town': Vitebsk, 1887-1900 ; 2. At Pen's, Vitebsk, 1900-1907 ; 3. Forbidden city: St. Petersburg, 1907-1908 ; 4. Thea: Vitebsk and St. Petersburg, 1908-1909 ; 5. Bella: Vitebsk, 1909 ; 6. Léon Bakst: St. Petersburg, 1909-1911 ; 7. "Surnaturel!": Paris, 1911-1912 ; 8. Blaise Cendrars: Paris, 1912-1913 ; 9. "My ferocious genius": Paris, 1913-1914 ; 10. Homecoming, Vitebsk, 1914-1915 ; 11. Married man: Petrograd, 1915-1917 ; 12. Commissar Chagall and Comrade Malevich: Vitebsk, 1917-1920 ; 13. Chagall's box: Moscow, 1920-1922); title: Part two: Exile (14. Der Sturm: Berlin, 1922-1923 ; 15. Dead souls: Paris, 1923-1924 ; 16. "Lumière-liberté": Paris, 1924-1927; title: 17. The prophets: 1928-1933 ; 18. wandering Jew, Paris, 1934-1937 ; 19. White crucifixion: paris and Gordes, 1937-1941 ; 20. America: New York, 1941-1944 ; 21. Virginia: New York and High Falls, 1944-1948 ; 22. Return to Europe: Orgeval and Vence, 1948-1952 ; 23. Vava: Vence, 1952-1960 ; 24. Decade of the large wall: Vence and St. Paul, 1960-1970 ; 25. "I was a good artist, wasn't I?": St. Paul, 1971-1985)