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Book SynopsisIncludes essays that capture the theoretical range and scholarly rigor of the criticism that has fundamentally transformed the study of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. This title offers fascinating perspectives, placing the artworks from this period in wider social and historical contexts.
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: The Critical History
of Impressionism: An Overview
MARY TOMPKINS LEWIS
Part One
Background Studies: Economic Landscapes
and Exhibition Strategies
1 Impressionism, Originality,
and Laissez-Faire
ROBERT L. HERBERT
2 Dealing in Temperaments: Economic
Transformation of the Artistic Field
in France during the Second Half of
the Nineteenth Century
NICOLAS GREEN
3 Impressionist Installations
and Private Exhibitions
MARTHA WARD
Part Two
Landscapes of Modernity
4 Framing the Landscape
JOHN HOUSE
5 The Environs of Paris
T.J. CLARK
Part Three
The Critical Climate
6 The Intransigent Artist or How
the Impressionists Got Their Name
STEPHEN F. EISENMAN
7 Duranty on Degas: A Theory
of Modern Painting
CAROL ARMSTRONG
8 Berthe Morisot and the
Feminizing of Impressionism
TAMAR GARB
Part Four
Impressionism,
Politics, and Nationalism
9 Camille Pissarro in 1880: An Anarchistic
Artist in Bourgeois Society
MICHEL MELOT
10 Monet and the Challenges to
Impressionism in the 1880s
PAUL TUCKER
Part Five
Recent Studies in Post-Impressionist Painting
11 Seurat’s Grande Jatte:
An Anti-Utopian Allegory
LINDA NOCHLIN
12 At the Threshold of Symbolism:
Van Gogh’s Sower and Gauguin’s
Vision after the Sermon
DEBORA SILVERMAN
13 Mark, Motif, Materiality:
The Cézanne Effect in the
Twentieth Century
RICHARD SHIFF
Select Bibliography
Contributors
List of Illustrations
Index
