Chagall

London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1998. 351 pages, illustrations (some colour), map; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. "In this lively and comprehensive book, Monica Bohm-Duchen examines Marc Chagall's prodigious output not only in painting but also in book illustration, theatre design, stained glass and poetry. She follows Chagall from his Russian Jewish childhood, through his encounter with the Parisian avant-garde and his activities in revolutionary Russia, to his later years in America and the South of France. This is the 1st survey to take full advantage of new material available to the West since glasnost. / Monica Bohm-Duchen is known for her work as an exhibition organizer, lecturer and writer on twentieth-century art. Author of The Nude and Understanding Modern Art, she was a contributor to the catalogue of Chagall Love and the Stage (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1998)." - Publisher. CONTENTS: I Knew That I Had to Leave Vitebsk and St Petersburg, 1887-1910; Now Your Colours Sing Paris, 1910-1914; Comrade Chagall Russia and Revolution, 1914-1922; Do You Know That You're Famous? Berlin and Paris, 1922-1930; A Restless Decade France, Palestine and Poland, 1930-1941; My Departed Love My New Come Love Exile in America, 1941-1948; The Great Machine International Fame and Fortune, 1948-1985. . Paperback. Fine. 8vo.