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ALEXANDER, SIDNEY: : MARC CHAGALL: A BIOGRAPHY

LONDON.CASSELL LTD.,1979.

ISBN 0304304433.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,plain white background with black lettered dw/dj,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - almost as new,despite book's age.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - an unread copy? Sharp-cornered,bright,clean, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate,plain white endpapers.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 526pp[paginated] includes contents list, acknowledgements,Pts 1-9,2 separate b/w illustrations interspersed in text along with a block of 16pp b/w contemporary photographs+illus between pp128/9,biblio and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication and a quotation page,2pp blanks at rear. Sidney Alexander has colourfully re-created the life of Marc Chagall,the great,and last surviving,member of the School of Paris. Based upon years of research and interviews across three continents,and embodying much hitherto unpublished biographical material,'Marc Chagall' presents a portrait as vivid as one of the artist's own creations. Chagall's long and dramatic life is traced from his early years in the Jewish environment of Vitebsk in Tsarist Russia where he was born in 1887,as an apprentice painter in St Petersburg, his fledgling years in Paris,his return to Russia where he was trapped by the First World War;his life as Commissar of Fine Arts in his home town, his return to Paris and exile in America in the Second World War. At last the story of his second marriage, ignored by Chagall himself in his autobiographical sketch,'My Life',is told, together with his close relationships with leading figures in the world of art,literature and the theatre. Alexander thus evokes a gallery of brilliant portraits and sensational events:Matisse and Picasso,Cubism and Fauvism,Modigliani and Soutine,the poet Apollinaire; revolutionaries and rioters: Leon Bakst,Nijinsky,Diaghilev; the art world of post-revolutionary Russia; the exiles in New York - Leger,Mondrian,Jacques Maritain. While France has been Chagall's 'second motherland',his roots remain in his birthplace. The mainsprings of his art are his Jewish childhood and Russian folklore,producing an extraordinary oeuvre which incorporates Hebraic intentsity with French sophistication.His immense output of paintings,as well as the Bible etchings,the stained glass in Jerusalem,the ceiling of the Paris Opera and the murals in Lincoln Center are all considered against the social matrix in which they were moulded. Alexander's biography captures the whimsical, mystical personality of this giant of 20thC art, the 'greatest living colourist' according to Picasso. 'Marc Chagall' is a superbly comprehensive biography of an artist living at the heart of the social and political setting of contemporary cultural events in Russia,France and America. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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