Seurat re-viewed /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Smith, Paul, 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009]
Series:Refiguring modernism ; 14.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Introduction / Paul Smith
  • Technique and theory. Hors-d'oeuvre : edges, boundaries, and marginality, with particular reference to Seurat's drawings / Anthea Callen
  • Seurat and color theory / Georges Roque
  • Society and the subject. The family and the father : the Grande Jatte and its absences / S. Hollis Clayson
  • Illuminations of disenchantment : Seurat's Parade de Cirque / Jonathan Crary
  • Irony. Interpreting Seurat's figure paintings / John House
  • The ironic eye/I in Jules Laforgue and Georges Seurat / Joan U. Halperin
  • Sensation. Seurat and the act of sensing : perception as artifact / Brendan Prendeville
  • Grave Seurat / Richard Shiff
  • Stillness and symbolism. "Souls of glass" : Seurat and the ethics of "timeless" experience / Paul Smith
  • Seurat and Mallarmean thought / Richard Hobbs
  • Selected bibliography
  • List of contributors
  • Index.