Seurat re-viewed / edited by Paul Smith.
"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.
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| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Refiguring modernism : arts, literatures, sciences
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 258 pages : illustrations. |
| Format: | Book |
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.