Georges Seurat is best known as the painter of A Sunday on the
Grande Jatte--1884, one of the most recognizable and reproduced
works of art in the world. In recent years the painting has been
the subject of a highly successful exhibition, the inspiration for
a Broadway musical (by Stephen Sondheim), and the subject of a
television program. The Grande Jatte has achieved this iconic
status for a number of reasons, but is unknown to most people
except as a simulacrum. The Grande Jatte is also plagued by the
long-standing cliche that it embodies a "scientific" way of
painting. The painting is much more complex, however; so is
Seurat's body of work as a whole. In this collection of essays,
Paul Smith has assembled a broader view of Seurat's oeuvre. Seurat
Re-viewed touches on its engagement with society, gender, politics,
new artists' materials, and developments in art theory.
Individual essays focus on the many facets of Seurat's work and
its context, including its use of color and its debt to color
theory; its exploitation of different drawing media; its connection
to the work of the artist's contemporaries, including the poets
Jules Laforgue and Stephane Mallarme; and its concern with
nineteenth-century social issues. The contributions also show
important links among the Grande Jatte, literary Symbolism, and the
development of future Modernist practices. The book amounts to a
major reevaluation of Seurat's art in the culture of the late
nineteenth century.
In addition to the editor, the contributors are Anthea Callen,
S. Hollis Clayson, Jonathan Crary, Joan U. Halperin, Richard Hobbs,
John House, Brendan Prendeville, Georges Roque, and Richard
Shiff.
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