My Life: Marc Chagall (Peter Owen Modern Classic)

About this book

Marc Chagalls strange vibrant and poetic autobiographical essay on his early life containing illustrations has established itself as a unique document in 20th-century literature Completed by the artist in 1922 this memoir became available in English in 1965 when Peter Owen published this translation and it has remained in print ever since. Lyrical and evocative it is a key work in Chagall studies for the light it sheds on the shaping of the artists creative genius. His deep roots in Jewish traditionreligious and secularare reflected in these recollections of his poverty-stricken youth from Witebsk White Russia to the Parisian art world. Together his words and pictures paint an incomparable portrait of one of the greatest artists of this century and of the now vanished milieu that inspired him.