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Article: In search of Marc Chagall: review essay.(Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative)(Marc Chagall: On Art and Culture)(Book Review)
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Marc Chagall: On Art and Culture, edited by Benjamin Harshav, translated by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. 225 pp. $49.50.
Marc Chagall and His Times, A Documentary Narrative, by Benjamin Harshav, with translations by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 1026 pp. $39.95.
The two volumes constitute a major ingathering of the verbal culture of Marc Chagall across the twentieth century. In pursuit of his subject, Professor Harshav collected every scrap of letters, poems, essays, notes, autobiographical writings, musings, bills, etc. in Yiddish, Russian, French, Hebrew, and ...