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.