Agenda

Marc Chagall: memòries de Vitebsk

Lecture by Maria Josep Balsach

Wednesday, May 28,

Institut d'Estudis Nahmànides

Lecture of the cycle "The arts in Judaism". In this cycle we propose the theme of artistic expression in Judaism, and how some of the visual arts translate aspects of memory, tradition and Jewish culture, cause their authors are of Jewish origin.

Chagall (1887-1984) was able to see at the age of 90 how his works were exhibited in the Louvre. Born in the Russian region of Vitebsk into a large and poor Jewish peasant family, Chagall suffered Nazism - Goebbels burned some of his works -, but exile allowed him to join the school of Paris.

Maria Josep Balsach is a PhD in Art History and she is director of the Chair of Contemporary Art and Culture at the University of Girona. She is the author of numerous theoretical works on aesthetics and art of the 19th and 20th centuries from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her publications include Esteticisme i decadentisme a la fi de segle [Ed.] (Barcelona, ​​1988), Hybris i pensament Tràgic(Barcelona, ​​1990); L'art immaterial d'Arnold Schönberg (International Prize for Art Criticism Spaces); Modernismo e avantguarda. Picasso, Miró, Dali e la pittura catalana nell primo Novecento (Milan, 2003) and Joan Miró. Cosmogonies d'un món originari (1918-1939) (Barcelona, ​​2007) (Barcelona City Essay Award).

Free activity

Organized by: Institute of Nahmanides Studies (Patronat Call de Girona) and Ferrater Mora Chair of Contemporary Thought (University of Girona. Address: Sant Llorenç street no number