The First Moderns (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William R. Everdell
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: History and science
- Time of Work: The 1870’s to the 1910’s
- Setting: Europe and the United States
- Principal Characters: Georg Cantor, Richard Dedekind, Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Boltzmann, Georges-Pierre Seurat, Walt Whitman, Arthur Rimbaud, Jules Laforgue, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Sigmund Freud, Hugo De Vries, Max Planck, Bertrand Russell, Edmund Husserl, Edwin S. Porter, Albert Einstein, August Strindberg, Arnold Schoenberg, James Joyce, Vassily Kandinsky
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Science and technology
- Subjects: Perception, Twentieth century, Art or artists, Science or scientists, Painting or painters, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Cubism, Mathematics or mathematicians, Physics or physicists
- Locales: Europe, United States
When Ferris Bueller takes a day off from school with his friends Cameron and Sloan in the popular 1986 motion picture Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, they spend part of the afternoon at the Art Institute of Chicago. There, Cameron is captivated by Georges-Pierre Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886). While Bueller and Sloan steal a kiss, Cameron stares in fascination at Seurat’s expansive painting. Switching to Cameron’s point of view, the camera takes the viewer to the center of the canvas, where a zoom-in on a little girl dressed in...
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