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Explores themes of home, exile, and Jewish identity in Chagall’s mid-career works. Marc Chagall (1887–1985) remains famous for his dreamy images and luminous use of color, but in the 1930s his palette darkened as he began to address intensifying anti-Semitism in Europe. World in Turmoil draws attention to lesser-known works the artist created during this period and into the 1940s, a time in which he visited Israel, escaped Nazi-occupied France, and found refuge in the United States. Showcasing more than one hundred paintings, works on paper, and costumes, the volume traces Chagall’s search for a pictorial language in the face of displacement and persecution. The pieces presented here include numerous self-portraits, art with allegorical and Biblical subjects, designs from Chagall’s exile in New York City, images of his hometown in present-day Belarus, and landmark paintings like The Falling Angel . The catalog for the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt’s exhibition of the same name, Chagall offers a topical perspective on the oeuvre of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.
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Chagall, Ilka Voermann
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- Released
- 2022
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Chagall
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ilka Voermann
- Publisher
- Hirmer
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 200
- ISBN10
- 3777440825
- ISBN13
- 9783777440828
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction
- Rating
- 3.5 out of 5
- Description
- Explores themes of home, exile, and Jewish identity in Chagall’s mid-career works. Marc Chagall (1887–1985) remains famous for his dreamy images and luminous use of color, but in the 1930s his palette darkened as he began to address intensifying anti-Semitism in Europe. World in Turmoil draws attention to lesser-known works the artist created during this period and into the 1940s, a time in which he visited Israel, escaped Nazi-occupied France, and found refuge in the United States. Showcasing more than one hundred paintings, works on paper, and costumes, the volume traces Chagall’s search for a pictorial language in the face of displacement and persecution. The pieces presented here include numerous self-portraits, art with allegorical and Biblical subjects, designs from Chagall’s exile in New York City, images of his hometown in present-day Belarus, and landmark paintings like The Falling Angel . The catalog for the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt’s exhibition of the same name, Chagall offers a topical perspective on the oeuvre of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.