Russian YIDDISH Poetry SOVIET Book CHAGALL Avant Garde

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DESCRIPTION : This unique YIDDISH book combines the ART of an important representative of the JEWISH RUSSIAN AVANT GARDE stream of the 1920's-1930's - MARCH CHAGALL together with the political POETRY of the SOVIET RUSSIAN Jewish POET Itzik FEFER . The FRONT PAGE of this YIDDISH POETRY Jewish book was designed , Both HEADINGS as well as ILLUSTRATION by MARC CHAGALL in the mid 1940's . The DESIGN was created specificaly and especialy for this POETRY BOOK by ITZIK FEFER . The book was published in NYC ca mid 1940's in a LIMITED EDITION of only 2000 copies. Original maroon cloth HC. Original illustrated front page ( By MARC CHAGALL ) . 8 x 5.5" . 128 pp. Nicely preserved ex-library copy. Only 2 library stamps. ( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images ). Book will be sent inside a protective envelope . AUTHENTICITY : This is the ORIGINAL ca mid 1940's first edition , NOT a more recent edition or a reprint , It comes with life long GUARANTEE for its AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY. PAYMENTS : All payment methods accepted : Paypal , Personal or business USD check, cashier check , Wire transfer etc. SHIPPMENT : SHIPP worldwide via registered airmailis $10 . Book will be sent inside a protective envelope . From WIKIPEDIA : Marc Chagall (7 July 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian Jewish artist associated with several key art movements and was one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century. He forged a unique career in virtually every artistic medium - from his early Cubist paintings to his book illustrations, stage sets, ceramics, stained glass windows, tapestries and fine art prints, Chagall's haunting, exuberant, and poetic images have enjoyed universal appeal. 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. According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be “the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists.” For decades he “had also been respected as the world’s preeminent Jewish artist.” He also accepted many non-Jewish commissions, including a stained glass for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, a Dag Hammarskjold memorial at the United Nations, and the great ceiling mural in the Paris Opera. His most vital work was made on the eve of World War I, when he traveled between St. Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his visions of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. He spent his wartime years in Russia, and the October Revolution of 1917 brought Chagall both opportunity and peril. He was by now one of the Soviet Union's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avante-garde. He founded the Vitebsk Arts College, which was considered the most distinguished school of art in the Soviet Union.He was known to have two basic reputations, writes Lewis - as a pioneer of modernism, and as a major Jewish artist. He experienced modernism’s golden age in Paris, w “he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism.” Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk." “When Matisse dies,” Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.”Marc Chagall was born in Liozno, near Vitebsk, now in Belarus, the eldest of nine children in a close-knit Jewish family led by his father Khatskl (Zakhar) Shagal, a herring merchant, and his mother, Feige-Ite. This period of his life, described as happy though impoverished, appears in references throughout Chagall's work. The family home on Pokrovskaya Street is now the Marc Chagall Museum .He began studying painting in 1906 with a local artist, Yehud... read more

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