Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: An Anthology (Paperback)

Preface

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