Thames & Hudson, 1965, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, First, Illustrated By: Chagall
800 g; 288 pages, last page blank, includes chronology, short bibliography, and a list of the 186 reproductions of art works by Marc Chagall, as well as an index. Colour illustrated dust jacket. The dustwrapper has slight rubbing at the top of the front fold over, and at the top of the spine section of the dustjacket. Top edge of text block slightly dusty. In the author's discussion of Chagall's development as an artist, he deals at length with the events and circumstances which have influenced it, and he also examines the many styles of art forms encompassed by Chagall's long career, including his set designs for the Jewish theatre in Moscow and for the Ballet Theatre in New York, His Distant but Fertile Connection with Fauvism and, Cubism and Surrealism, his stained-glass windows for the synagogue in Jerusalem and his later work in lithography, wood engraving, ceramics and sculpture. Throughout this book the author speaks of Chagall as a poet -- a poet whose great poems on canvas shine with what Chagall himself calls the "light of freedom" and the "colour of love". -- front fold over blurb. ". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Chagall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 0228631.
800 g; 288 pages, last page blank, includes chronology, short bibliography, and a list of the 186 reproductions of art works by Marc Chagall, as well as an index. Colour illustrated dust jacket. The dustwrapper has slight rubbing at the top of the front fold over, and at the top of the spine section of the dustjacket. Top edge of text block slightly dusty. In the author's discussion of Chagall's development as an artist, he deals at length with the events and circumstances which have influenced it, and he also examines the many styles of art forms encompassed by Chagall's long career, including his set designs for the Jewish theatre in Moscow and for the Ballet Theatre in New York, His Distant but Fertile Connection with Fauvism and, Cubism and Surrealism, his stained-glass windows for the synagogue in Jerusalem and his later work in lithography, wood engraving, ceramics and sculpture. Throughout this book the author speaks of Chagall as a poet -- a poet whose great poems on canvas shine with what Chagall himself calls the "light of freedom" and the "colour of love". -- front fold over blurb. ". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Chagall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 0228631.