Curriculum Vitae_Captions_Illustrations

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The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/20204 holds various files of this Leiden University
dissertation.
Author: Kuo, Shu Hsuan
Title: Nostalgic impulse : Marc Chagall’s trilogy of illustrated books in France
Issue Date: 2012-11-28
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Shu Hsuan Kuo (a.k.a. Jessie Kuo) was born in Taipei, Taiwan. After graduating
from the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, National Cheng Chi
University, she continued to study in the Institute of Art Studies, National Central
University, and received her MA in 2003. In 2007 she came to the Netherlands to
pursue her PhD at the Institute for Cultural Disciplines in Leiden University
(LUICD).
Before coming to the Netherlands, Jessie worked as an art history author
and has published two major books of The Secrets of Illustration (AS IF Books,
Taipei: 2007) and Art in Diagrams (Easybooks, Taipei: 2005). She was also a
lecturer of beginners’ art courses in the private institute of Art & Collection Group.
During her study in LUICD, Jessie kept on writing art reviews for different
publications in Taiwan, including the leading art magazine ARTCO Monthly and
Art Collection + Design. Jessie also cooperated with other authors and has
published Dutch Touch (Avantguard, Taipei: 2012) and Design Collection
(National History Museum, Taipei: 2010). Apart from writing, Jessie worked as
an active translator and has translated numerous books and articles from English
to Traditional Chinese, for example The UnDutchables by Colin White & Laurie
Boucke (Ta Chia, Taipei: 2010) and ZEN in the Fifties by Helen Westgeest (Art &
Collection Group, 2007).
138 CAPTIONS
CAPTIONS
Cover pic
Chagall, Introduction au Théâtre d’Art juif, tempera,
gouache,white clay on canvas, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow,
1920
Figure I-1
Maurice Denis, illustration for Le voyage d'Urien,
lithography, 1893
Figure I-2
Chagall, Frontispiece of Daphnis et Chloé (M. 308),
lithography, 1967
Figure I-3
Traditional Russian lubok, “The She-goat and the Bear”,
woodcut
Figure I-4
Chagall, “The Walking Village”, Troyer, ink and pen, 1922
Figure I-5
Chagall, Homage to Gogol, watercolour, Museum of
Modern Art, New York, 1917
Figure I-6
Chagall, “The Grave”, Poetry of A. Lyesin, etching, 1938
Figure I-7
Chagall, I and the Village, oil painting, Museum of Modern
Art, New York, 1911
Figure I-8
Chagall, “Selbstportrait”, Mein Leben, etching, Sprengel
Collection I, Sprengel Museum, 1922
Figure II-1
Chagall, Frontispiece of Troyer, pen in red and black ink,
1922
Figure II-2
Chagall, Frontispiece of The Great Fair: Scenes from My
Childhood, etching, 1958
Figure II-3
Chagall, Frontispiece of L’Odyssée (M. 749), lithography,
1974
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Figure III-1
Doré, “Le Lièvre et les Grenouilles” in Fables de La
Fontaine avec les dessins de Gustave Doré, engraving, 1868
Figure III-2
Romeyn de Hooghe, Frontispiece of Oeuvres de M. de La
Fontaine, engraving, 1685
Figure III-3
Charles-Nicolas Cochin le fils, Frontispiece of Fables
choisies, mises en vers, engraving, 1746
Figure III-4
Cham (pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé),
Frontispiece of Fables de La Fontaine interprétées par
Cham, 1858
Figure III-5
Benjamin Rabier, Frontispiece of Fables de La Fontaine,
1906
Figure III-6
Gustave Moreau, “Allegory of Fable”, Frontispiece of
Fables de La Fontaine, 1886
Figure III-7
Chagall, “Le Corbeau et le Renard”, Frontispiece of Les
Fables de La Fontaine, vol. 1, 1956
Figure III-8
Doré, "Le Renard et les Raisins", Fables de La Fontaine
avec les dessins de Gustave Doré, engraving, 1868
Figure III-9
Grandville, "Le Renard et les Raisins", Fables de La
Fontaine, 1838
Figure III-10 Chagall, Le Coq, oil painting, Collection ThyssenBornemisza, Madrid, 1929
Figure III-11 Chagall, Dedicated to my Fiancée, oil painting,
Kunstmuseum, Berne, 1911
Figure III-12 Chagall, En écoutant le coq, oil painting, The Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago, 1944
Figure III-13 Grandville, “La Chatte métamorphosée en Femme”, Fables
de La Fontaine, 1838
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Figure III-14 Chagall, Le Rêve, oil painting, Musée d'Art Moderne de la
Ville de Paris, Paris, 1927
Figure III-15 Doré, "Le Rat et l’Éléphant", Fables de La Fontaine avec
les dessins de Gustave Doré, engraving, 1868
Figure III-16 Doré, “Le Lion amoureux”, Fables de La Fontaine avec les
dessins de Gustave Doré, engraving, 1868
Figure III-17 Doré, “Le Paon se plaignant à Juno”, Fables de La Fontaine
avec les dessins de Gustave Doré, engraving, 1868
Figure III-18 Grandville, “La Mort et le Bucheron”, Fables de La
Fontaine, 1838
Figure III-19 Thomas Rowlandson, The English Dance of Death, 1816
Figure III-20 Chagall, Le Cirque (M. 498), coloured lithography, 1967
Figure III-21 Doré, “La Fortune et le jeune Enfant”, Fables de La
Fontaine avec les dessins de Gustave Doré, engraving, 1868
Figure IV-1
Doré, “Moses Showing the Ten Commandments”, La Sainte
Bible, 1866
Figure IV-2
Chagall, Le sacrifice d’Isaac, oil painting, Musée national
Marc Chagall, Nice, 1966
Figure IV-3
Chagal, “David et Bethsabée” (M. 132), Verve, lithography,
1956
Figure IV-4
Chagall, “Ils firent aussi des vêtements sacrés pour
l'exercice de leur ministère dans le Sanctuaire ainsi que le
Seigneur avait ordonné à Moïse” (M. 465), Exodus, 1966
Figure IV-5
Chagall, Création de l'homme, oil painting, Musée national
Marc Chagall, Nice, c. 1958
Figure IV-6
Chagall, cover design for The Magician, pen and ink, 1915
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Figure IV-7
Chagall, cover design for ShTROM, 1922
Figure IV-8
Chagall, “Bezaleel fit deux cherubins d'or, les chérubins
avaient des ailes déployées et se faisaient face" (M. 464),
Exodus, coloured lithography, 1966
Figure IV-9
Chagall, “Le Visage d'Israel” (M. 231), Verve Bible,
lithography, 1960
Figure IV-10 Chagall, “Paradis I” (M. 232), Verve Bible, lithography,
1960
Figure IV-11 Chagall, “Ruth glaneuse” (M. 246), Verve Bible, lithography,
1960
Figure IV-12 Chagall, “Rencontre de Ruth et de Booz” (M. 248), Verve
Bible, lithography, 1960
Figure IV-13 Chagall, “Ruth aux pieds de Booz” (M. 248), Verve Bible,
lithography, 1960
Figure IV-14 Chagall, “Booz se réveille et voit Ruth à ses pieds” (M.
249), Verve Bible, lithography, 1960
142 ILLUSTRATIONS
ILLUSTRATIONS
Nicolas Gogol, Les Âmes Mortes, traduction de Henri Mongault, Paris: Tériade,
1948.
Two volumes of unbound pages plus 96 etchings of illustrations and 11 etchings
for the chapter headings.
The plates were executed between 1923 and 1927.
Edition of 335 numbered copies. 33 copies of hors commerce. All copies signed
by the artist.
La Fontaine, Les Fables de La Fontaine, Paris: Tériade, 1952.
Two volumes of unbound pages plus 100 etchings of illustrations and 2 etchings
for the frontispieces.
The plates were executed between 1927 and 1930.
Edition of 200 numbered copies with text; 85 copies hand-coloured by the artist
and 100 in black-and-white; 15 copies of hors commerce. All copies signed by the
artist in the colophon. Additional 100 numbered portfolios without text were
signed by the artist.
Bible, Paris: Tériade, 1956.
Two volumes of unbound pages plus 105 etchings of illustrations and 2 etchings
for the frontispieces.
The plates were executed between 1931 and 1939. By 1939, 66 etchings were
printed; the remaining 39 were reworked and printed between 1952 and 1956.
Edition of 275 numbered copies, 20 copies of hors commerce. All copies signed
by the artist. Additional 100 numbered portfolios were hand-coloured and signed
by the artist.
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* All illustrations were titled and numbered by Meyer Shapiro.