Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Mary Tompkins Lewis is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Trinity College, Hartford. She is the author of Cezanne's Early Imagery (UC Press) and Cezanne.