Seurat

An intensive look at the 19th-century French painter whose brief career formed one of the critical bridges to modern art. While Seurat's pointillist philosophy, anticipating abstractionism, is covered in detail, theprimary focus of this survey is his subject matter: that of ordinary middle-class people at leisure, which greatly altered the perception of his contemporaries and opened new vistas for all painters. Color, B&W illus. 215p.