Meditation and Atonement in the Art of Marc Chagall

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Meditation and Atonement in the Art of Marc Chagall "
David Lyle Jeffrey

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081566
Doc. No	:	LA125195
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156852912X635205‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	David Lyle Jeffrey
Title & Author	:	Meditation and Atonement in the Art of Marc Chagall [Article]\ David Lyle Jeffrey
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2012
Volume/ Issue Number	:	16/3
Page No	:	211–230
Abstract	:	Chagall’s crucifixion paintings, long a delicate subject among art historians, are best contextualized in the light of his life-long repatriation of Christian iconography to its Jewish foundation. Chagall reverses typological sequences familiar to Christians, so that instead of the Old Testament being seen as prefiguring the events of the Gospels, in his work the New Testament refers back to the Hebrew Scriptures in such a way as to illuminate the universal in Jewish experience. In Solitude (1933) and The Yellow Crucifixion (1943) we see how Chagall achieves a remarkable fusion of Jewish and Christian understandings of meditation and visual commentary on the Scriptures, prophetically calling both traditions to repentance and reconciliation. Chagall’s crucifixion paintings, long a delicate subject among art historians, are best contextualized in the light of his life-long repatriation of Christian iconography to its Jewish foundation. Chagall reverses typological sequences familiar to Christians, so that instead of the Old Testament being seen as prefiguring the events of the Gospels, in his work the New Testament refers back to the Hebrew Scriptures in such a way as to illuminate the universal in Jewish experience. In Solitude (1933) and The Yellow Crucifixion (1943) we see how Chagall achieves a remarkable fusion of Jewish and Christian understandings of meditation and visual commentary on the Scriptures, prophetically calling both traditions to repentance and reconciliation.
Descriptor	:	atonement
Descriptor	:	Chaim Potok
Descriptor	:	Di Goldene Keyt
Descriptor	:	Marc Chagall
Descriptor	:	meditation
Descriptor	:	Opinia
Descriptor	:	Raïssa Maritain
Descriptor	:	Roman Brandstaetter
Descriptor	:	Scholem Asch
Descriptor	:	Solitude
Descriptor	:	Yellow Crucifixion
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156852912X635205‬