Chagall

One of the best-loved artists of the 20th century, Marc Chagall (1887-1985)s paradoxically one of the least understood. He did much to encourage anmage of himself as an entirely intuitive genius, but although his work seemsaive in style and iconography, he was in fact a complex and sophisticatedndividual.;In this comprehensive and analytical book Monica Bohm-Duchenlaces the artist firmly in his social, religious and cultural context,xamining his prodigious output not only in painting but also in bookllustration, theatre design, stained glass and poetry. She follows Chagallrom his Russian-Jewish childhood, through his encounter with the Parisianvant-garde in the years prior to World War I and his activities inevolutionary Russia, to his later years in the South of France, where heied at the age of ninety-seven. The first survey of Chagall's work to takeull advantage of new material available to the West since Glasnost, the bookncourages a critical reappraisal of all phases of the artist's long career.

Monica Bohm-Duchen is known for her work as an organizer of exhibitions and as a lecturer and writer on twentieth-century art. She is author of The Nude and Understanding Modern Art, and contributor to the catalogue: Chagall, Love and the Stage (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1998).