Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Art of vision
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| ISBN: | 9780300212822
0300212828
9780300248074
0300248075
9780300208351
0300208359
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed July 2, 2015).
Print version record and online resource (A & AePortal, viewed on July 1, 2019).
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| Summary: | "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"--Publisher's website.
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| Other form: | Print version: Foa, Michelle, 1975- Georges Seurat 9780300208351
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| Standard no.: | 10.12987/9780300212822
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