Paul Smith is Professor of History of Art at the University of Warwick. He is also the editor of Penn State Press’s edition of Marius Roux’s The Substance and the Shadow (2007)

“The book as a whole is eclectic and adventurous. There is a collective determination not to become mired in stale controversy. . . . Colour theory is not ignored, but there is far more here than Seurat’s palette and Chevreul’s colour disc. There is poetry and politics, ethics and edges, the family and the father, sensation, disenchantment, timelessness, irony and absence. It is by turns thrilling and demanding.”—Alex Danchev The Times Higher Education Supplement

• ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionPaul SmithTechnique and Theory1.Hors-d’œuvre: Edges, Boundaries, and Marginality, with Particular Reference to Seurat’s DrawingsAnthea Callen2.Seurat and Color TheoryGeorges RoqueSociety and the Subject3.The Family and the Father: The Grande Jatte and Its AbsencesS. Hollis Clayson4.Illuminations of Disenchantment: Seurat’s Parade de CirqueJonathan CraryIrony5.Interpreting Seurat’s Figure PaintingsJohn House6.The Ironic Eye/I in Jules Laforgue and Georges SeuratJoan U. HalperinSensation7.Seurat and the Act of Sensing: Perception as ArtifactBrendan Prendeville8.Grave SeuratRichard ShiffStillness and Symbolism9.“Souls of Glass”: Seurat and the Ethics of “Timeless” ExperiencePaul Smith10.Seurat and Mallarmean ThoughtRichard HobbsSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Paul Smith is Professor of History of Art at the University of Warwick. He is also the editor of Penn State Press’s edition of Marius Roux’s The Substance and the Shadow (2007)

“The book as a whole is eclectic and adventurous. There is a collective determination not to become mired in stale controversy. . . . Colour theory is not ignored, but there is far more here than Seurat’s palette and Chevreul’s colour disc. There is poetry and politics, ethics and edges, the family and the father, sensation, disenchantment, timelessness, irony and absence. It is by turns thrilling and demanding.”—Alex Danchev The Times Higher Education Supplement

• ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionPaul SmithTechnique and Theory1.Hors-d’œuvre: Edges, Boundaries, and Marginality, with Particular Reference to Seurat’s DrawingsAnthea Callen2.Seurat and Color TheoryGeorges RoqueSociety and the Subject3.The Family and the Father: The Grande Jatte and Its AbsencesS. Hollis Clayson4.Illuminations of Disenchantment: Seurat’s Parade de CirqueJonathan CraryIrony5.Interpreting Seurat’s Figure PaintingsJohn House6.The Ironic Eye/I in Jules Laforgue and Georges SeuratJoan U. HalperinSensation7.Seurat and the Act of Sensing: Perception as ArtifactBrendan Prendeville8.Grave SeuratRichard ShiffStillness and Symbolism9.“Souls of Glass”: Seurat and the Ethics of “Timeless” ExperiencePaul Smith10.Seurat and Mallarmean ThoughtRichard HobbsSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Paul Smith is Professor of History of Art at the University of Warwick. He is also the editor of Penn State Press’s edition of Marius Roux’s The Substance and the Shadow (2007)

“The book as a whole is eclectic and adventurous. There is a collective determination not to become mired in stale controversy. . . . Colour theory is not ignored, but there is far more here than Seurat’s palette and Chevreul’s colour disc. There is poetry and politics, ethics and edges, the family and the father, sensation, disenchantment, timelessness, irony and absence. It is by turns thrilling and demanding.”—Alex Danchev The Times Higher Education Supplement

• ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionPaul SmithTechnique and Theory1.Hors-d’œuvre: Edges, Boundaries, and Marginality, with Particular Reference to Seurat’s DrawingsAnthea Callen2.Seurat and Color TheoryGeorges RoqueSociety and the Subject3.The Family and the Father: The Grande Jatte and Its AbsencesS. Hollis Clayson4.Illuminations of Disenchantment: Seurat’s Parade de CirqueJonathan CraryIrony5.Interpreting Seurat’s Figure PaintingsJohn House6.The Ironic Eye/I in Jules Laforgue and Georges SeuratJoan U. HalperinSensation7.Seurat and the Act of Sensing: Perception as ArtifactBrendan Prendeville8.Grave SeuratRichard ShiffStillness and Symbolism9.“Souls of Glass”: Seurat and the Ethics of “Timeless” ExperiencePaul Smith10.Seurat and Mallarmean ThoughtRichard HobbsSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex