Seurat and the Making of LA Grande Jatte - Brossura

Herbert, Robert L.; Harris, Neil; Seurat, Georges

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ISBN 10: 0520242114 ISBN 13: 9780520242111

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2004

Riassunto

The origins, development, execution, and influence on artist Georges Seurat's greatest work, A Sunday in La Grande Jatte, is examined in a study that reveals a compositional process that used Old Master traditions and methods. Simultaneous.

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L'autore:

Robert L. Herbert is Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke College. Among his publications are Seurat's Drawings (1962), Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society (1988), Monet on the Normandy Coast: Tourism and Painting (1994), Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts (2000), and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings (2001). Neil Harris is Preston and Sterling Morton Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Among his publications is Chicago's Dream, a World's Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893-1993 (1993).

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"The miracle of La Grande Jatte is its coincidence of critical distinction and popular celebration. High, low, mass, and popular cultures meet in mutual delight, continuing to revel in the mysteries of that Parisian Sunday."—from "The Park in the Museum" by Neil Harris

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• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0520242114
• ISBN 13: 9780520242111
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288