Georges Seurat : the drawings / Jodi Hauptman ; with essays by Karl Buchberg [and others].

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seurat, Georges, 1859-1891.
Other Authors: Hauptman, Jodi.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Museum of Modern Art, [2007]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • The imperatives of style: Seurat's drawings, 1886-1891 / Richard Thomson
  • Seurat as mentor / Bridget Riley
  • Plates III
  • Catalogue of the exhibition / Tricia Yunjoo Paik
  • Chronology / Vérene Tasseau.