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Georges Seurat

The Art of Vision

by Michelle Foa
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This revelatory study of Georges Seurat (1859–1891) explores the artist's profound interest in theories of visual perception and analyzes how they influenced his celebrated seascape, urban, and suburban scenes. While Seurat is known for his innovative use of color theory to develop his pointillist technique, this book is the first to underscore the centrality of diverse ideas about vision to his seascapes, figural paintings, and drawings. Michelle Foa highlights the importance of the scientist Hermann von Helmholtz, whose work on the physiology of vision directly shaped the artist's approach. Foa contends that Seurat's body of work constitutes a far-reaching investigation into various modes of visual engagement with the world and into the different states of mind that visual experiences can produce. Foa's analysis also brings to light Seurat's sustained exploration of long-standing and new forms of illusionism in art. Beautifully illustrated with more than 140 paintings and drawings, this book serves as an essential reference on Seurat.

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    July 14, 2015

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      • ISBN: 9780300212822
      • File size: 24377 KB

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      • ISBN: 9780300212822
      • File size: 24377 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      October 15, 2015

      Foa (art history, Tulane Univ.) explores the concept of vision and its meaning to French artist Georges Seurat (1859-91) through the context of his times, his work, and the science and color theory that enhanced his paintings. In separate chapters, the author discusses the themes that interested Seurat and informed his paintings, from his seascapes to what the author deems as one of the first paintings of the Eiffel Tower, with the Grand Jatte and circus images in between. All were produced during the artist's short life, with pointillistic style that reveals his vision of individual dabs of paint that can be seen as separated up-close and from a distance illusionistically as a continuity. VERDICT Foa skillfully covers new ground in Seurat studies. This work will appeal to art scholars and students as well as the general reader interested in 19th-century French painting and its influence in the new advancements on ways of seeing pictures and their meaning in the real world. Suitable for most art book collections.--Ellen Bates, New York

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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