Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesNovelist 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 Chagallrsquo;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; Chagall remains defiantly secular in outlook; determined to ldquo;narraterdquo; the miraculous and tragic events of the Jewish past; he frequently chooses Jesus as a symbol of martyrdom and sacrifice.Wilson brilliantly demonstrates how Marc Chagallrsquo;s life constitutes a grand canvas on which much of twentieth-century Jewish history is vividly portrayed. Chagall left Belorussia for Paris in 1910; at the dawn of modernism; looking back dreamily on the world he abandoned. After his marriage to Bella Rosenfeld in 1915; he moved to Petrograd; but eventually returned to Paris after a stint as a Soviet commissar for art. Fleeing Paris steps ahead of the Nazis; Chagall arrived in New York in 1941. Drawn to Israel; but not enough to live there; Chagall grappled endlessly with both a nostalgic attachment to a vanished past and the magnetic pull of an uninhibited secular present. Wilsonrsquo;s portrait of Chagall is altogether more historical; more political; and edgier than conventional wisdom would have us believendash;showing us how Chagall is the emblematic Jewish artist of the twentieth century.Visit nextbook.org/chagall for a virtual museum of Chagall images.From the Hardcover edition.
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