The complex relationships between Chagall's three cultural identities: Jewish, Russian, French, 1887-1985, correspondence, documents, quotations, ephemera, narrative, twentieth century events and ideologies, his deep roots in folk culture, personal relationships and loves, involvement with the art of the Russian Revolution, with Surrealism, Communism, Zionism, Yiddish literature and the state of Israel, his meteoric rise from the 'ghetto' of the Russian Pale of Settlement to the centres of modern culture; illustrations, 1,000+pp.
