This study examines the impact of modernity and the artistic imagination on an idyllic landscape. Touching on the issues of pleasure, escape, work, leisure, and desire and ecstasy, it offers a fresh look at the Cote d'Azur and its significance as a site for modernist innovation from 1890 to 2001.[...]
Marc Chagall (1887-1985), one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century, created his unique style by blending richly coloured folk art with Cubism, Surrealism and imagery drawn from the Russian Christian icon tradition. Chagall: Love, War, and Exile explores a significant but neglected period i[...]