University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009.
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Part of the series Refiguring modernism 14;Refiguring modernism 14.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-243) and index.
- 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.
- 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.
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