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The Drawings
Jodi Hauptman, Karl D. Buchberg
Hauptman, Jodi
ISBN: 9780870707179
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Museum of Modern Art
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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 …
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.
| ISBN | 0870707175 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780870707179
(What's this?) | | Pages | 272 | | Publisher | Museum of Modern Art | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Museum of Modern Art | | Weight (grammes) | 1130 | | Format | Hardback | | Published in | New York | | Publication date | 12 Nov 2007 | | Height (mm) | 255 | | Illustrator | Seurat, Georges | | Width (mm) | 206 | | Library of Congress | NC | | Spine width (mm) | 28 | | DEWEY | 741.092 | | Academic level | General |
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| | | Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry | | 6 | | | | Introduction by Jodi Hauptman | | 9 | | | | Seurat Distracted by Richard Shiff | | 16 | | | | Seurat: Materials and Techniques by Karl Buchberg | | 30 | | | | Plates I | | 43 | | | | Medium and Miasma: Seurat's Drawings on the Margins of Paris by Jodi Hauptman | | 106 | | | | Polka Dots and Moonbeams by Hubert Damisch | | 118 | | | | Plates II | | 125 | | | | The Imperatives of Style: Seurat's Drawings, 1886-1891 by Richard Thomson | | 168 | | | | Seurat As Mentor by Bridget Riley | | 184 | | | | Plates III | | 197 | | | | Catalogue of the Exhibition by Tricia Yunjoo Paik | | 249 | | | | Lenders to the Exhibition | | 255 | | | | Chronology by Verane Tasseau | | 256 | | | | Selected Bibliography | | 258 | | | | Acknowledgments | | 260 | | | | Index of Plates | | 265 | | | | Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art | | 269 |
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