Marc Chagall's magnificent stained-glass windows installed in the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew Medical Center in Jerusalem are no doubt among the most inspiring and beautiful pieces of twentieth-century art."
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Marc Chagall's magnificent stained-glass windows installed in the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew Medical Center in Jerusalem are no doubt among the most inspiring and beautiful pieces of twentieth-century art."
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Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Red cloth boards are lightly sunned on edges. Front inside hinge beginning to crack at half-title page. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Good in Unclipped and clean but has suff jacket. "First Revised Edition, 1967; " xix and 111 p., immaculate and unmarked plus many beautiful plates, most in color; binding firm, but cracked between pp. xvi-xvii; red boards fine, though slightly faded at upper edge--they have been well protected by valiant efforts of a d.j. that has suffered much chipping and two closed tears at margins while protecting the volume. Old book aroma gratis.
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Very Good. Size: Large 8vo 9"-10; Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean interior but for the previous owner's ink-stamp, sunned exterior edges, but minimal rubbing thereto. Bound in red cloth, with gilt lettering, Imperial octavo format measuring 8 3/4" x 10 3/4". First revised edition. xix, 1-119 [4] pp. Illustrated with reproductions, most of them in full-color, of the windows, designed by the Jewish artist Marc Chagall from Belorus, which are installed in the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Very Good in Fair jacket. Size: 4to-over 9? "-12" tall; Type: Hardback New York, G Braziller, 1975. Second Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Fair Dust Jacket in protective mylar cover. Text and Notes by Jean Leymarie. xix plus 97 pages. 9" x 11" tall. Binding of red cloth gilt titled, very clean, no marks, bottom corner right near spine there is a quarter inch slit. No other edgewear. Magnificent full page 60 full color plates 24 in black and white. Pages very clean and bright. Table of Contents has four red ink notes, p 1 has a red parenthesis around a line of text, p. 9 has a small red name and one word underlined. Jacket is edgeworn, closed tear to spine head, jagged crumbled area center back. Each of the twelve stained-glass windows of the twelve Tribes of Israel reproduced in this book is preceded by a preparatory set of drawings and models. This volume explains and illustrates not only the story of the windows but also the story of their creation. A gorgeous book of some of the most beautiful pieces of all 20th century art.
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Marc Chagall (artist) Fine in Fair jacket. Book Quarto, hardcover, fine in red cloth boards w/ gilt lettering on spine in edgeworn white pictorial dj. Description of Chagall's magnificent stained-glass windows installed in the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew Medical Centre in Jerusalem. Translated from the French by Elaine Desautels.
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Good in good dust jacket. dj chipped. Text in English, French. 210 p. illus., plates (part col. ), port. 24 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits, Plates.
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Marc Chagall. Good. xix, [1], 111, [11] pages. Note on fep. Includes Introduction, as well as the dimensions of the preparatory drawings, The Stained-Glass Windows, and the Details. Some scuffing and wear to cover and corners. Minor spine weakness at third color plate, restrengthened with glue. Each of the twelve stained-glass windows reproduced is preceded by a preparatory set of drawings and models, whose number, media, dimension, and order of presentation are exactly the same in the sequence of each Tribe and are arranged as follows: ---------------------------------------- Width First sketch, pencil pen and India ink..................................... X 5-7/8'', Preparatory drawing, India ink and wash.................................... X 11-5/8" First color skitch, India ink and watercolor.............................. X 5-7/8", Small model, gouache and collage................................. X 18-7/8" Final model, gouache and collage................................. X 12-1/2" Marc Chagall[a] (born Moïche Zakharovitch Chagalov; [7] 6 July 1887-28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic tapestries and fine art prints. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century" (though Chagall saw his work as "not the dream of one people but of all humanity"). For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's pre-eminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN and the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra. He had two basic reputations: as a pioneer of modernism and as a major Jewish artist. He experienced modernism's "golden age" in Paris, where "he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism". Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk." In 1960, he began creating stained glass windows for the synagogue of Hebrew University's Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Leymarie writes that "in order to illuminate the synagogue both spiritually and physically", it was decided that the twelve windows, representing the twelve tribes of Israel, were to be filled with stained glass. Chagall envisaged the synagogue as "a crown offered to the Jewish Queen", and the windows as "jewels of translucent fire", she writes. Chagall then devoted the next two years to the task, and upon completion in 1961 the windows were exhibited in Paris and then the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They were installed permanently in Jerusalem in February 1962. Each of the twelve windows is approximately 11 feet high and 8 feet (2.4 m) wide, much larger than anything he had done before. Cogniat considers them to be "his greatest work in the field of stained glass". In 1973 Israel released a 12-stamp set with images of the stained-glass windows. The windows symbolize the twelve tribes of Israel who were blessed by Jacob and Moses in the verses which conclude Genesis and Deuteronomy. In those books, notes Leymarie, "The dying Moses repeated Jacob's solemn act and, in a somewhat different order, also blessed the twelve tribes of Israel who were about to enter the land of Canaan...In the synagogue, where the windows are distributed in the same way, the tribes form a symbolic guard of honor around the tabernacle." Leymarie describes the physical and spiritual significance of the windows: The essence of the Jerusalem Windows lies in color, in Chagall's magical ability to...