Hauptman, Jodi.
New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the United States by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, c2007.
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- Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., Oct. 28, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-259) and index of plates.
- Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry — Introduction / Jodi Hauptman — Seurat Distracted / Richard Shiff — Seurat: Materials and Techniques / Karl Buchberg — Plates I — Medium and Miasma: Seurat’s Drawings on the Margins of Paris / Jodi Hauptman — Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Hubert Damisch — Plates II — Imperatives of Style: Seurat’s Drawings, 1886-1891 / Richard Thomson — Seurat As Mentor / Bridget Riley — Plates III — Catalogue of the Exhibition / Tricia Yunjoo Paik — Lenders to the Exhibition — Chronology / Verane Tasseau — Selected Bibliography — Acknowledgments — Index of Plates — Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art.
- Once described as the most beautiful painter’s drawings in existence, Georges Seurat’s mysterious and radiant works on paper played a crucial role in his career. Though Seurat is most often remembered as the inventor of pointillism and for paintings like Un Dimanche a la Grande Jatte, his incomparable drawings are among his – and modernism’s – greatest achievements. Working primarily with conte crayon on paper, Seurat explored the Parisian metropolis and its environs, abstracted figures, spaces, and structures, and dramatized the relationship between light and shadow, creating a distinct body of work that is a touchstone for art the twentieth century and today. Accompanying the first exhibition in almost twenty-five years to focus exclusively on Seurat’s drawings,this volume surveys the artist’s entire oeuvre – from his academic training and the emergence of his unique methods to the studies made for his monumental canvases. Distinguished writers present important new research on Seurat’s artistic strategies, materials, and themes. –BOOK JACKET.
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