Chagall Harris, Nathaniel

Marc Chagall painted floating lovers, violin-playing goats, and villages turned upside down — a dreamscape rooted in his Jewish-Russian childhood and decades of exile. Nathaniel Harris traces the artist's journey from Vitebsk to Paris, through war and wandering, showing how Chagall turned memory and folklore into a visual language entirely his own. The book explores his stained glass, theatre designs, and the bold color work that made him one of modernism's most distinctive voices. Richly illustrated, it's an accessible entry point into an artist who made the fantastical feel deeply personal. For anyone curious about modern art, Jewish cultural history, or how biography shapes style.