Seurat re-viewed
By: edited by Paul Smith
Series: Refiguring modernism -- 14; Refiguring modernism -- 14.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press; Penn State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780271035451
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Introduction / Paul Smith; title: Technique and theory. Hors-d'oeuvre : edges, boundaries, and marginality, with particular reference to Seurat's drawings / Anthea Callen; title: Seurat and color theory / Georges Roque; title: Society and the subject. The family and the father : the Grande Jatte and its absences / S. Hollis Clayson; title: Illuminations of disenchantment : Seurat's Parade de Cirque / Jonathan Crary; title: Irony. Interpreting Seurat's figure paintings / John House; title: The ironic eye/I in Jules Laforgue and Georges Seurat / Joan U. Halperin; title: Sensation. Seurat and the act of sensing : perception as artifact / Brendan Prendeville; title: Grave Seurat / Richard Shiff; title: Stillness and symbolism. "Souls of glass" : Seurat and the ethics of "timeless" experience / Paul Smith; title: Seurat and Mallarmean thought / Richard Hobbs; title: Selected bibliography; title: List of contributors; title: Index.