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Article: Marc Chagall on Art and Culture.(Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative)(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Marc Chagall on Art and Culture, edited by Benjamin Harshav. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2003. xiv, 225 pp. $49.50 US (cloth), $19.95 US paper.
Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative, edited by Benjamin Harshav. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2004. xx, 1026 pp. $75.00 US (cloth), $29.95 US (paper).
Who was Marc Chagall? Those who have read Chagall's autobiography, My Life, of any of the many popular biographies based principally on it, may think they have the answer, or at least some of the answers, to this question. Famously, however, Chagall's autobiography is almost as much a work of the imagination ...