Subject |
Seurat, Georges, 1859-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Descript |
xiii, 258 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
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. |
Alt author |
Smith, Paul, 1956- editor.
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ISBN |
9780271035451 |
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0271035455 |
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