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Title:

Seurat re-viewed / edited by Paul Smith.

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xiii, 258 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Seurat, Georges,--1859-1891--Criticism and interpretation.

Other Authors:

Smith, Paul, 1956-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-243) and index.

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.

Summary:

"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.

Series:

Refiguring modernism ; 14.

ISBN:

0271035455 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780271035451 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)373475102

LCCN:

2009022869

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Burling Library (Grinnell College) (Grinnell)     ** Lending Suspended

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)