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<p>Georges Seurat is best known as the painter of <em>A Sunday on the Grande Jatte—1884</em>, 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 <em>Grande Jatte</em> has achieved this iconic status for a number of reasons, but is unknown to most people except as a simulacrum. The <em>Grande Jatte</em> is also plagued by the long-standing cliché 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. <em>Seurat Re-viewed</em> touches on its engagement with society, gender, politics, new artists’ materials, and developments in art theory.</p> <p>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 Laforg

Author

Paul Smith; Georges Seurat

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press; Penn State University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271035451

Subjects

Art, Arts

Updated

2026-03-24