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  The World to Come: A Novel

  by Dara Horn

  "Nothing short of amazing."— Entertainment Weekly A million-dollar painting by Marc Chagall is stolen from a museum. The unlikely thief is Benjamin Ziskind, a thirty-year-old quiz-show writer. As Benjamin and his twin sister try to evade the police, they find themselves recalling their dead parents—the father who lost a leg in Vietnam, the mother who created children's books—and their stories about trust, loss,... (more)
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  Marc Chagall 1887-1985: Le Peintre-poete

  by Ingo F Walther

  Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is widely regarded as epitomizing the "painter as poet". The worldwide admiration he commanded remains unparalleled by any artist of the 20th century. Chagall's paintings, steeped in mythology and mysticism, portray colourful dreams and tales that are deeply rooted in his Russian Jewish origins. The memories and yearning they evoke recall his native Vitebsk, and the great events that mark... (more)
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  Marc Chagall

  by Jonathan Wilson

  Novelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel. Marc Chagall’s work addresses these transforming events, but his ambivalence about his role as a Jewish artist adds an intriguing wrinkle to common assumptions about his life. Drawn to sacred subject matter,... (more)
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  Marc Chagall The Old Testament

  The famed Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall executed a series of etchings along Biblical themes illustrating the Old Testament between 1925 and 1939. They are reproduced here in this handsome gift volume and combined with the poetry of the King James version of the Old Testament text. Chagall is renowned for his surrealistic inventiveness that combines memory, Jewish folklore, and fantasy and is recognized as... (more)
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  Chagall

  by Susan P. Compton

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  Chagall Watercolors and Gouaches: Watercolors and Gouaches (Famous Artists Series)

  by Alfred Werner

  Enjoy all the seasons with this special Charles Kuralt's seasonal audiobooks. Featuring new material and classic pieces from his days at CBS, each audiobook celebrates the special joys and memories of different seasons in Kuralt's unique style. November publication date. 4 cassettes.
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  Burning Lights

  by Bella Chagall, Marc Chagall

  By Bella Chagall, with 36 b/w illus. by Marc Chagall. Reprint of 1946 memoir by wife of famed artist with a new introduction by Judith R. Baskin, Professor of Women's Studies now at Oregon State University. "A vibrant memoir of Vitebsk before WWII where both Bella and Marc Chagall lived and where female experience is at the center." (from the Intro by Judith Baskin) A must for Jewish museum shops!
• First EncounterBella Chagall

  

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  First Encounter

  by Bella Chagall

  Text: English, French, Yiddish (translation)
• Chagall; (Twentieth-century masters)Mario Bucci

  

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  Chagall; (Twentieth-century masters)

  by Mario Bucci

  Text: English, Italian (translation)
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  Chagall: A Biography

  by Jackie Wullschla?ger

  “When Matisse dies,” Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.” As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long career created some of the best-known and most-loved paintings of our time. Yet behind this triumph lay struggle,... (more)
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  The Lost Chagall: A Novel Inspired on True Events

  by Johnny Wright

  During 1963, as the United States was yielding to the second British invasion, master painter Marc Chagall exhibited his work La Revolution in Europe, demonstrating his unique genius, a blending Russian Expressionism with French Cubist influences. Though it is almost a certainty that the chivalrous artist had no intention that fateful morning of rescuing a lady in distress on the boardwalk of Nice, their... (more)
• Burning Lights Thirty-six drawings by Marc ChagallBella Chagall

  

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  Burning Lights Thirty-six drawings by Marc Chagall

  by Bella Chagall

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  The Bible: Genesis, Exodus, The Song of Solomon

  The celebrated artist Marc Chagall began illustrating the Bible in 1931, and it became his lifelong passion. This extraordinary volume includes more than 130 pages of his finest works, paired with three books from the Old Testament. Chagall's illustrations reflect his Jewish heritage and his view of the complex relationship between God and man, presaging many of the subjects and themes in his later work.... (more)
• Chagall: Burning Lights a Unique Double Portrait of the Warm World of Russian JewryBella Chagall

  

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  Chagall: Burning Lights a Unique Double Portrait of the Warm World of Russian Jewry

  by Bella Chagall

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  Marc Chagall. (English)

  by Marc Chagall

  When the painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985) moved from a small village in Russia to France, he took with him a wealth of memories that would have a great impact on his life's work. Dreams of his Russian home mix with impressions of Paris form his fantastic pictures. This book is an introduction to Chagall's fairy tale world, full of promise, mystery and a certain yearning for a world he had left behind in Russia.... (more)
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  May I Feel Said He (Art & Poetry)

  by E. E. Cummings, Marc Chagall, Linda Sunshine

  The poem may i feel said he is a sensually ecstatic tribute to love and a humorous salute to the mating rituals between men and women. Originally published in Cumming's 1935 No Thanks collection, may i feel said he is one of the poet's most original and best loved works. Marc Chagall's floating lovers and violin-playing horses are the perfect complement to Cumming's whimiscal poem. Chagall's lyrical work... (more)
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  Marc Chagall: The Lost Jewish World

  by Benjamin Harshav, Marc Chagall

  "If I were not a Jew . . . I wouldn't have been an artist, or I would be a different artist altogether." -Marc Chagall, Leaves from My Notebook. Marc Chagall is one of the most popular artists of the 20th century, famous for his poetic, surreal images that represent a topsy-turvy world, combining fantasy and spirituality with a modernist style. This volume serves as a guide to the iconography of Chagall's... (more)
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  Daphnis and Chloe (Penguin Classics)

  by Paul Turner, Longus, Marc Chagall

  A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek mountainside. Taken in by a goatherd and a shepherd respectively, and raised near the town of Mytilene, they grow to maturity unaware of one another's existence until the mischievous god of love, Eros, creates in them a sudden... (more)
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  Marc Chagall

  by Marc Chagall

  Marc Chagall is one of the 20th century's favorite artists, known and admired for his rich palette, his inventive approach, his accessible subjects, and the deep traditions behind his work. Combining fantasy, spirituality, and nostalgia with a distinctive modern painting style, Chagall's canvases are infused with a joyous, dreamlike simplicity. Even as styles shifted from Cubism to Suprematism to Surrealism, his... (more)
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  My Life (Peter Owen Modern Classics)

  by Marc Chagall

  Completed by Marc Chagall (1887-1985) in 1922, this lyrical, evocative, and unique book is a key work to understanding the life and art of this creative genius who has come to be known as the Father of Surrealism."" His deep roots in Jewish tradition-religious and secular-are reflected in these recollections of his poverty-stricken youth in White Russia, to his involvement in the Paris art world prior to World... (more)