My Life
$21.96
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
3 April 2018
Summary
Marc Chagall’s colourful, hilarious, dream-like autobiography
Chagall was born in Witebsk in White Russia, the son of a herring merchant who lived opposite a laundress and a chimney sweep. After the Revolution, while waiting for emigration papers, he wrote his autobiography at the age of 34.
My Life reads like one of Chagall’s paintings—emotional, fragmentary, humorous, colourful, and dream-like, soaked in nostalgia for Jewish small-town society, familiar to us from <…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241331415 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241331412 |
| Author: | Marc Chagall |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 3 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
About The Author
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall was born in White Russia and brought up in the Jewish community of Witebsk. He was a prolific artist, producing whimsical, dream-like paintings, stained glass windows, stage sets, ceramics and tapestries. He studied art in St Petersburg and he became Commissar of Arts in Witebsk after the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1923 he settled in Paris and, apart from evacuating to New York during the Second World War, he lived in France until his death in 1985. In the 1950s, Picasso predicted that ‘Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is’.
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