- Paperback: 230 pages
- Publisher: Da Capo Press; New edition edition (1 Mar 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0306805715
- ISBN-13: 978-0306805714
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.3 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,556,604 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Anyone who likes Chagall s paintings will enjoy this book: the work of an unteachable, unspoiled folk artist. . --Evening Standard
Full of enjoyments --Guardian
Chagall writes as whimsically as he paints; lovingly of other people, humourously and lovingly of himself. --Daily Mail --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Full of enjoyments --Guardian
Chagall writes as whimsically as he paints; lovingly of other people, humourously and lovingly of himself. --Daily Mail --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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My Life was written in Moscow in 19211922, when Chagall was thirty-five years old. Although long out-of-print, it remains one of the most extraordinarily inventive and beautifully told of all autobiographies. The text is accompanied by twenty plates which Chagall prepared especially to illustrate his life story. Together, the words and pictures paint an incomparable portrait of one of the greatest painters of this century, and of the now vanished milieu which inspired him.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is such a wonderful book.
I really loved it. It is about Chagall's early life, a very lovely, emotional and
poetic like prose form of saying things.
Highly recommended.
I really loved it. It is about Chagall's early life, a very lovely, emotional and
poetic like prose form of saying things.
Highly recommended.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Evocative Word-Pictures
18 Dec 2002
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MY LIFE is unlike any other autobiography I've read. Who would have thought of Chagall as a poet? As a master of word pictures? There is not a dry, boring sentence in the entire book. Instead, Chagall paints verbal pictures of his youth, his family, his struggles to become an artist. It's must reading for anyone who aspires to remain an artist (painter, writer, dancer . . .). Although the book reads very, very quickly, the poignant feelings it evokes cannot end so quickly. I am haunted by Chagall's painful youth-the poverty, the discouragement he received from many quarters. And yet the autobiography is inspirational, because as a writer, I know that one cannot let go of an unshakable faith in one's calling.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
A lyric story of the artist's youth
9 Jan 2005
Format:Paperback
This small autobiography is a poetic inspiring work. It tells of Chagall's childhood in Vitebsk and his first youthful efforts as an artist. And it also contains within it the great love story of Chagall's life with his first wife Bella. Chagall writes with intensity and strength much the way he paints. The difficulty of his early years is somehow transcended by his devotion to his artistic vocation. This is a recommended work for all those who care about the relation of the artist to his life, and of the creator of great beauty to his artistic task.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Marc Chagall, the poetry of reality.
13 May 2000
Format:Paperback
This book is an autobiography by Marc Chagall himself. Its a wonderful exploration of Chagall's jewish-russian memories of his beloved village Vitebsk and of his first encounters with the avant-garde in the Paris of the early 20th century. Its a good example of Chagall's sensitivity and of his spirituality. It should be a highly readable book for it is full of poetry, phantasy and hope. At the same time, the reader will be able to meet one the 20th century leading colorists.
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