Chagall Monumental Works G di San Lazzaro (1973 ) UK Edition

by G di San Lazzaro

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Chagall Monumental Works G di San Lazzaro (1973 ) UK Edition CHAGALL MONUMENTAL WORKS Edited by G. di San Lazzaro (From the inside flap) With an original lithograph executed by the artist specially for this book. (Reproduction of a lithograph created by March Chagall exclusively for the french edition of this book) 33 plates in color 100 reproductions in black and white ...In our context "monumental" means, above all, "eternal." And we hope that our great artist, he who is all modesty and whose work has celebrated only the humble, donkeys and goats, draught-horses and not parade horses, will not be offended by our use of the term. There is nothing truly awesome about his prophets, and even his Moses looks like a poor relative of the superb lawmaker sculpted by Michelangelo. Marc Chagall's work is the eternity of man, the tenderness of the kiss, a bursting shimmer of colors. and his Biblical Message is a message and song of love. We must now ask how Chagall achieved this unquestionably monumental quality. In my opinion it was done very simply: through that synthesis of the arts which Gropius sought so intently; but the Bauhaus gave us few examples as probing as those which, on the other side of artistic creation, Chagall offers for our admiration…

• Publisher: Ebeling Publishing
• Year: 1973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair

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