Georges Seurat 1859-1891 - Hardcover

Herbert, Robert L.; Seurat, Georges; Metropolitan Museum Of Art (New York, N. Y.); Galeries Nationales Du Grand Palais (France)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870996185 ISBN 13: 9780870996184

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991

Synopsis

The definitive overview of the work and life of Seurat, the great Neo-impressionist artist.

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About the Author

Robert L. Herbert is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke College. Among his publications are "Seurat's Drawings "(1962), "Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society "(1988), "Monet on the Normandy Coast: Tourism and Painting "(1994), "Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts "(2000), and "Seurat: Drawings and Paintings "(2001). Neil Harris is Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Among his publications is "Chicago's Dream, a World's Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893-1993 "(1993).

Cachin is Director of the Musees de France, and President of the Reunion des Musees Nationaux.

Colta Ives is Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, and Susan Alyson Stein is Curator, Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Sjraar Van Heugten is Chief Curator and Marije Vellekoop is Curator of Drawings at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Gary Tinterow is a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, specializing in nineteenth-century, modern and contemporary art.

From Publishers Weekly

This extraordinary volume presents a Seurat far more fascinating and complex than the standard image of the coolly scientific dot painter of picnickers and circuses. Cataloguing a large retrospective now at New York's Metropolitan Museum on the centenary of the artist's death, the book gives us a Seurat of many moods and styles. His drawings include powerful naturalistic pictures of laborers, as well as shadowy, mystical portraits and symbolic landscapes suggestive of Odilon Redon. His meditative seascapes suggest a spiritual cleansing, and the solitary figures on dusky streets prefigure the modern age of urban atomization. Seurat mocked commercialized big-city entertainment with his puppetlike figures. His rarely seen female nudes bring impetuosity and freshness to a classic theme. The reproductions are superb. The text, written by Herbert ( Seurat's Drawings ) in collaboration with scholars from the Met and the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, intertwines the life and work of the enormously prolific artist who died at the age of 31.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870996185
• ISBN 13: 9780870996184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450