Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
the edinburgh review or critical journal: for july, 1848..october, 1848
Author: The Edinburgh Review
Author: Catalogue of Books in the Reference Department of the Arbroath Public Library
Author: Arbroath Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Brontes
Author: Professor Miriam AllottPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136173811
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
The Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: Publishers' Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature, and Booksellers' Record
Author: The Publishers' Circular
Author: Mary Barton, a Tale of Manchester Life
Author: Elisabeth-Cleghorn GaskellPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Seurat's Circus Sideshow
Author: Richard ThomsonPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588396150
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Georges Seurat (1859–1891) created just six major figure paintings during his lifetime, one of which, the alluring Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), has remained the most challenging to interpret since it first intrigued viewers at the 1888 Salon des Indépendants in Paris. Unlike Seurat’s earlier sunlit scenes, Circus Sideshow presents a nighttime tableau depicting a parade—a street show enticing passersby to purchase tickets. With its geometrically precise composition, muted colors, and elements of abstraction, the painting stands apart as a masterpiece of Neo-Impressionism and heralds Seurat’s subsequent depictions of popular entertainments. This book, the first comprehensive study of Circus Sideshow, situates the painting in the context of nineteenth-century Paris and of the many social changes France was undergoing. Renowned art historian Richard Thomson illuminates the roles of caricature, naturalist and avant-garde painting, and circus advertising; examines Seurat’s use of contemporary aesthetic theory; and discusses how artists ranging from Rouault to Picasso mined the sideshow theme into the twentieth century. Illustrated with Seurat’s related drawings, works by other artists, and period posters and broadsides, Seurat’s Circus Sideshow delves into the history of traveling circuses and seasonal fairs in France, exploring the ongoing appeal of this traditional form of popular entertainment through the fin de siècle. Two additional essays describe the painting’s enthusiastic reception in New York upon its 1929 debut and present the results of a fresh technical examination of the canvas, making this volume the definitive resource on one of Seurat’s most captivating works.