"Chagall" by Raymond Cogniat (published 1985)
If you are not too familiar with Marc Chagall's work, "Chagall" by Raymond Cogniat (1985) is a good place to begin. The "America Windows", the beautiful blue stained glass windows gifted to Chicago for the bicentennial in 1977 and now located at the Art Institute of Chicago, is the piece of artwork that attracted me to this artist first and foremost: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109439... My personal interest springs from that middle panel: a wand, held up between what looks like the sun and moon, a floating book, the cityscape below in all its pretty treachery, the purple bird, a bit of green, a table. Elegantly simple in subject matter, at least seemingly, those windows can be looked at for quite some time. They penetrate into the viewer, engulf them in its blue, making the city feel more whole and less fragmented. As Cogniat writes of Chagall's stained glass: "...in his stained glass the wall itself vanishes and the whole interior is fi...