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Nobody painted dreams like Marc Chagall — and nobody has told his life better. Lovers floating over rooftops, green-faced fiddlers, villages glowing with impossible color: Jackie Wullschläger, the Financial Times‘ chief visual arts critic, follows Chagall from his childhood in Vitebsk’s Jewish quarter to the Paris avant-garde and decades of worldwide fame.
Wullschläger brings an insider’s authority: years of writing about art give her readings of the paintings real bite, while her narrative gifts make this a page-turner as well as a reference. Meet the young dreamer who carried his shtetl imagery — rabbis, brides, cows — through revolutions, wars, and exile, and never let go of it, transforming memory into some of the most beloved images of the twentieth century.
Published to wide acclaim in 2008, this remains one of the most readable lives of a great modern artist — the perfect companion to Chagall’s luminous, gravity-defying canvases, and to the century that made him.
Lovers floating over rooftops, fiddlers with green faces, villages glowing with impossible color — nobody painted dreams like Marc Chagall. In this richly researched biography, Jackie Wullschläger, the Financial Times’ chief visual arts critic, follows Chagall from his childhood in the Jewish quarter of Vitebsk to the heart of the Paris avant-garde and finally to decades of worldwide fame.
Wullschläger brings an insider’s authority to the story: years of writing about art give her readings of Chagall’s paintings real bite, while her narrative gifts make this a page-turner as well as a reference. We meet the young dreamer who carried the imagery of his shtetl childhood — the rabbis, the brides, the cows — through revolutions, wars, and exile, and never let go of it.
Published to wide acclaim in 2008, this remains one of the most readable lives of a great modern artist — the perfect companion to Chagall’s luminous, gravity-defying canvases.
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