Written by scholars for a general audience, each title in the \"Masters of Art\" series has illustrations accompanied by commentaries discussing each individual work....

Georges Seurat is not easy to know, either as an artist or as a personality. Yet, to know little or nothing of his life can hardly detract from our appreciation or understanding of his highly deliberate painting, for his is a self-sufficient art, which is to be understood primarily in terms of its formal and plastic qualities....

Recounts the life and career of the French painter, explains why his work was considered so controversial, and show examples of his paintings....