Georges Seurat: The Drawings
by Jodi Hauptman
from The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Once described as "the most beautiful painter's drawings in existence," Georges Seurat's mysterious and luminous works on paper played a crucial role in his short, vibrant career. This comprehensive publication 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. Accompanying the first exhibition in almost 25 years to focus exclusively on Seurat's drawings, this volume presents approximately 130 works, primarily the artist's incomparable conte drawings along with a small selection of oil sketches and paintings. In an effort to bridge the seemingly opposite goals of description and evocation, Seurat masses dark and light tones to abstract figures, exploits medium and paper to amplify radiating light, and engages with the Parisian metropolis, revealing urban types, the industrial suburbs and nineteenth-century entertainment. Though Seurat is perhaps best known as the inventor of Pointillism, this volume demonstrates his tremendous achievement as a draftsman and his fundamental importance to the art of the twentieth century. It includes carefully selected details of the work, as well as reproductions from pages of Seurat's sketchbooks, which have never before been published. Texts by Jodi Hauptman, Karl Buchberg, Hubert Damisch, Bridget Riley, Richard Shiff and Richard Thomson address specific aspects of Seurat's techniques, materials, and subject matter. They are rounded out by a chronology, a selected bibliography and a detailed checklist.
Georges Seurat 1859-1891
Georges Seurat (Rizzoli Art Series)
by Norma Broude
from Rizzoli International Publications
Seurat: 16 Art Stickers (Fine Art Stickers)
by Georges Pierre Seurat
from Dover Publications
Seurat and The Bathers (National Gallery London Publications)
by John Leighton
from National Gallery London
When Seurat first exhibited his Bathers at Asni_res in 1884, it perplexed but fascinated the few critics who noticed it. Today the picture is one of the most famous and popular works in the world. Yet the extraordinary appeal of this painting is not easily defined. In Seurat and the Bathers the authors discuss the various choices Seurat made with regard to subject, format, and technique in preparing this monumental painting.
Masters of Art: Seurat (Masters of Art)
by Pierre Courthion
from Harry N. Abrams
Georges Seurat, 1859-1891: The Master of Pointillism (Basic Art)
by Hajo Duchting
from Taschen
Seurat and the Avant-garde
by Paul Smith
from Yale University Press
Georges Seurat, one of the most popular and admired of post-Impressionist painters, has been the focus of much attention in recent years. This book by Paul Smith views the artist in a new context and explodes some of the myths that have grown up about him.
The Drawings of Georges Seurat
Seurat (World of Art)
by John Russell
from Thames & Hudson
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