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BELVEDERETIBURONLIBRARY 3 1111 02272 4338 Berijamin H II 111 Art and Culture BEL-TIB amn books 759. 7 Chagall 2003 \^':0> Chagall, Marc, 1887- Marc Chagall on art and culture including the : first book on Chagall's art by A. Efros and Ya. MARC CHAGALL ON ART AND CULTURE «,DAIEDUE ,„, * JAN u LUU3 Cat.#55137001 PrintedinUSA BENJAMIN HARSHAV, EDITOR Marc Chagall on Art and Culture Including the first book on Chagall's art by A. EFROS AND YA. TUGENDHOLD (MOSCOW 1918) Translations from French, Russian,Yiddish, and Hebrew by BARBARA AND BENJAMIN HARSHAV Stanford UnwersityPress Stanford, California20o3 StanfordUniversityPress Stanford,California ©3oo3byBenjaminHarshav. Allrightsreserved. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-free,archival-qualitypaper LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Chagall,Marc,1887-1985 MarcChagallonartandculture:includingthefirstbookon Chagall'sartbyA.EfrosandYa.Tugendhold(Moscow,1918)/editedby BenjaminHarshav;translationsfromFrench,Russian,Yiddish,and HebrewbyBarbaraandBenjaminHarshav. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. - ISBN0-8047-4880-6(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN0-8047-4881-4(pbk. : alk.paper) 1. Chagall,Marc, 1887—Writtenworks.?. Chagall,Marc, 1887—Aesthetics.3. Chagall,Marc, 1887—Criticismand interpretation.I.Tugendhold,Y.A. (YakovAleksandrovich), i873-i9?8.II.Efros,A.M. (AbramMarkovich), 1888-1954.III.Harshav, Benjamin, 1938-lY.Harshav,Barbara, 1940-V.Title. N6999.C46A35 3oo3 709'.?—dc^i 3008007569 OriginalPrinting:?oo3 Lastfigurebelowindicatesyearofthisprinting: 1? 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 o3 DesignedbyJanetWood TypesetbyClassicTypographyinii/?i Filosofia CONTENTS Preface xi Introduction: The Texts of a Multicultural Artist i BENJAMIN HARSHAV AnOutline ofChagall's Life 3 The ModernJewishRevolution 17 Questions ofIdentity 2;^ 1. in Revolutionary Russia: 1918-1922 ^7 Art ontheAnniversaryofOctober: November7, 1918 ^8 The RevolutioninArt: March-April 1919 3o MyWorkinthe MoscowYiddishChamber Theater: i9:?i-i9:?8 33 OnJewishArt—Leaves fromMyNotebook: 19:?:? 38 2. In Paris Between the World Wars: 1923-1941 41 Howl Gotto KnowPeretz: 19:^5 41 OnModernArt: 1981 48 WithBialikinEretz-Israel: 1984 51 OnaJewishArt Museum:19:^9, 1985 54 SpeechattheWorldConference oftheYiddishScientific Institute: 1985 56 Artists andJewishArtists:April 10, 1989 60 3. World War II and the Holocaust: 1941-1950 65 Some Impressions RegardingFrenchPainting: 1948, 1946 65 vi Contents JamesJohnsonSweeney:AnInterviewwith MarcChagall: 1944 79 Unity—SymbolofOurSalvation: February 1944 87 To MyCityVitebsk: February 1944 91 Two Kinds ofArt-Poetry:April3o, r944 98 Tothe ParisArtists: December r944 101 The End oftheWar: May 1945 103 TotheJewishPeople inParis: June r946 104 "ComfortYe MyPeople...": July1946 105 ArtAfterthe Holocaust: July-August r947 ro8 Forthe SlaughteredArtists: 1950 ii3 4. Revival: 1951-1960 117 Words inJerusalem: June r95r 117 To Israel: Julyr9, r95r 119 Farewellto Israel: July:?o, 1951 i;?i A. Sutzkever—Poet and Symbol: r95o, 1955 i?3 Artand Life: March r958 i?6 The Erasmus Prize: r96o i38 5 Beyond Painting: 1952-1966 148 OnCeramics: i^^-^ 148 OnEngravingand Lithography: r96o 144 The Stained GlassWindows inJerusalem: 1961? 145 The Crisis ofColor: r963 147 The Ceilingofthe Paris Opera: 1964 151 The Circus: r966 151? 6. The Last Years: 1967-1985 155 Dialogue inthe LouvrewithPierre Schneider: 1967 155 Onthe First Dayofthe Six-DayWar: r967 168 OurStreets ofVitebskandVilna: 1967, r969 169 AbouttheYiddishPoet ElkhonenVogler 170 Onthe DeathofElkhonenVogler 170 TheTapestries inthe Knesset inJerusalem:August r969 r7i The Biblical Message: r973 17? Contents vii 7. The First Book on Marc Chagall: 1918 1^5 A. Efros andYa. Tugendhold: TheArtofMarcChagall 175 Abram Efros: The Emperor's Clothes 176 Ya. Tugendhold: TheArtist Marc Chagall 178 Ahram Efros: Chagall 188 I. The Nature ofHisArt 188 II. The Palette. Graphics 198 Notes ?o5 Index 2;31 The Art of Marc Chagall byA.EfrosandYa. Tugendhold. Publishedby theMoscowPubUshingHouse"Hehcon," 1918. Thebookwascomposedwiththehelpof theCircleforJewishNationalAesthetics"Shomir." Thepublisher'slogowasbyElLissitzky.
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