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The definitive overview of the work and life of Seurat, the great Neo-impressionist artist.
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A volume which embodies an entire generation of scholarship on the artist. Seurat's brief but brilliant career is traced from his early academic drawings of the 1870s to the paintings of popular entertainments and the serene landscapes of his final years.
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
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. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
A comprehensive retrospective of the work of Georges Seurat on the centennial of his death. The authors set out to "stimulate a fresh view of the artist" and succeed due in great part to a gorgeous selection of the artist's drawings. As the inventor of pointillism, Seurat is known best for his large painting, the universally popular La Grande Jatte, as well as a few portraits and circus scenes, but his work, all created in an intense decade before his early death at 31, is far more varied and exciting than these few pieces. His adept crayon drawings are masterpieces of light and dark, mood and atmosphere, and his seascapes shimmer with the play of color in infinite variation and contrast. The text offers a solid biographical and cultural context for Seurat's work, while the 352 illustrations, well over half in color, reproduce many seldom-seen works by this dynamically observant and innovative artist. ~--Donna Seaman
Choice Review
This sumptuous book, issued in conjunction with a centenary exhibition in Paris and New York City, is an authoritative overview of Seurat. The catalog is by Robert L. Herbert, (art history, Mount Holyoke College) who has published many articles on Seurat and Neo-Impressionism, and a definitive catalog, Seurat's Drawings (1962). There are individual articles, "Models" (poseuses) and "Seurat in France," by Francoise Cachin, Director of the Mus'ee d'Orsay and granddaughter of Paul Signac, Seurat's collaborator; "The Caf'e Concert" and "Parade de Cirque" by Gary Tinterow (Metropolitan Museum of Art); "Cirque" by Anne Diestel (Mus'ee d'Orsay) and provenance entries by Susan A. Stein (also of the Metropolitan Museum). The volume is further enhanced by 15 appendixes, including "Seurat's Painted Border and Frames"; his collection of prints, reproductions, and photographs; his references to other artists; and the influence of scientific publications. An exhaustive bibliography includes articles, catalogs, and other publications. The excellent illustrations include 244 in color. For libraries that do not have C.M. de Hauke's Seurat et son oeuvre (1961) or Henri Dorra and John Rewald's Seurat (1959) this present book is the thing to buy.-E. E. Hirshler, emeritus, Denison University
Library Journal Review
Never accorded a proper tribute from France, Seurat was the subject of a major retrospective held recently in Paris, then New York, commemorating the centennial of the Neo-Impressionist's death at 31. In collaboration with distinguished staff from the Musee d'Orsay and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seurat scholar Herbert has compiled this extensivie exhibition catalog. Such masterpieces as ``La Grande Jatte'' are conspicuously absent from the show but given ample coverage here. The grandeur and extent of Seurat's oeuvre are evident in the conte crayon drawings of lonely figures, the serene seascape paintings, and the serio-comical scenes of cafe and circus life. Each of the more than 230 works analyzed includes a history of ownership and exhibitions. The substantial text examines such issues as the science of light and color, pointillism, biographical material, and influences. This work should have permanent value and is strongly recommended.-- Joan Levin, MLS, Chicago (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
