Seurat and the Avant-garde by Paul Smith

Seurat and the Avant-garde by Paul Smith

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Challenging the assumption that Seurat's work was scientific or that it expressed a serious commitment to anarchism, this text traces the painter's involvement with the various factions of the avant-garde and shows that he was perhaps the earliest exponent of Idealism in modern art.

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Seurat and the Avant-garde by Paul Smith

Challenging the assumption that Seurat's work was scientific or that it expressed a serious commitment to anarchism, this text traces the painter's involvement with the various factions of the avant-garde and shows that he was perhaps the earliest exponent of Idealism in modern art.
Paul Smith is a lecturer in the art history department at the University of Bristol.
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ISBN 13 9780300070026
ISBN 10 0300070020
Title Seurat and the Avant-garde
Author Paul Smith
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Yale University Press
Year published 1997-07-21
Number of pages 224
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