The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Studies
Volume 14, no. 2 (Fall 1989)
Edited By Susan Rossen
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, published twice annually, presents articles on the collections and history of the Art Institute. This special issue presents a collection of articles on Georges Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte in honor of the painting’s centenary anniversary. Topics include the theoretical basis for Seurat’s thinking about his art; the social, class, and familial tensions of the newly developing urban world; radical political meanings of the Grande Jatte; Seurat’s subversion of visual traditions to critique consumerist culture; pigment deterioration and other conservation discoveries; and Seurat’s own biography and psychology.
Articles in this publication:
John House, “Reading the Grande Jatte”
Linda Nochlin, “Seurat’s Grande Jatte: An Anti-Utopian Allegory”
S. Hollis Clayson, “The Family and the Father: The Grande Jatte and its Absences”
Inge Fiedler, “A Technical Evaluation of the Grande Jatte”
Richard Thomson, “The Grande Jatte: Notes on Drawing and Meaning”
Michael F. Zimmerman, “Seurat, Charles Blanc, and Naturalist Art Criticism”
Stephen F. Eisenman, “Seeing Seurat Politically”
Mary Matthews Gedo, “The Grande Jatte as the Icon of a New Religion: A Psycho-Iconographic Interpretation”
254 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.
ISBN-13: 9780226028149
ISBN-10: 0226028143
