Seurat's Circus sideshow / Richard Thomson ; with contributions by Susan Alyson Stein, Charlotte Hale, and Silvia A. Centeno.

"The mystery, color, and magic of the circus was a subject of fascination for European artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The French Post-Impressionist painter Georges-Pierre Seurat (1859-1891) explored this theme in a number of drawings and sketches, as well as in his 1888 Pointilli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomson, Richard, 1953- (Author)
Corporate Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (Host institution, Issuing body)
Other Authors: Stein, Susan Alyson (Writer of added text)
Hale, Charlotte, 1959- (Writer of added text)
Centeno, Silvia A. (Writer of added text)
Seurat, Georges, 1859-1891
Language:English
Published: New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2017]
Subjects:
Seurat, Georges, > 1859-1891. > Parade > Exhibitions.
Seurat, Georges, > 1859-1891 > Expositions.
Seurat, Georges, > 1859-1891.
Zirkus > Motiv.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Expositions.
Physical Description:144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Seurat's Circus sideshow : a parade of paradoxes / Richard Thomson
  • Circus sideshow comes to town / Susan Alyson Stein
  • Seurat's Circus sideshow : materials, technique, evolution / Charlotte Hale and Silvia A. Centeno.