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Seurat re-viewed
Title
Seurat re-viewed / edited by Paul Smith.
ISBN
9780271035451
Published
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xiii, 258 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Summary
"An anthology of essays exploring the work of Georges Seurat (1859-1891). Sections are devoted to technique and theory, Seurat's engagement with social issues, irony regarding the paintings' content, aesthetic effects, and the relation of his work to literary symbolism"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 15, 2010
Series
Refiguring modernism : arts, literatures, sciences
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
List of illustrations
Introduction / Paul Smith
Technique and theory. 1. Hors-d'oeuvre : edges, boundaries, and marginality, with particular reference to Seurat's drawings / Anthea Callen
2. Seurat and color theory / Georges Roque
Society and the subject. 3.The family and the father : the Grande Jatte and its absences / S. Hollis Clayson
4. Illuminations of disenchantment : Seurat's Parade de Cirque / Jonathan Crary
Irony. 5 Interpreting Seurat's figure paintings / John House
6.The ironic eye/I in Jules Laforgue and Georges Seurat / Joan U. Halperin
Sensation. 7. Seurat and the act of sensing : perception as artifact / Brendan Prendeville
8. Grave Seurat / Richard Shiff
Stillness and symbolism. 9. "Souls of glass" : Seurat and the ethics of "timeless" experience / Paul Smith
10. Seurat and Mallarmean thought / Richard Hobbs
Selected bibliography
List of contributors
Index.
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