Marc Chagall (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Howard Greenfeld
- First Published: 1967
- Time of Work: 1887–1967
- Setting: Russia, Europe, Israel, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Marc Chagall, Bella Rosenfeld Chagall, Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, Herwarth Walden, Ambroise Vollard
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Art or artists, Jews or Jewish life, Painting or painters, Personality, Biography, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: Europe, United States, Israel, Russia
Form and Content
With Marc Chagall, Howard Greenfeld has written a biography stressing the positive and personal side of the artist. The book begins with a brief preface discussing Greenfeld’s own meeting with Chagall and the author’s admiration for him. The text then takes on a storylike quality, offering a fictional glimpse of Chagall as a young boy wandering through his hometown. The reader is told that Chagall added a quality of “magic” to whatever he saw and that he would become one of the leading painters of the twentieth century. The biography continues in...
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