A Companion to Impressionism

List of Figures ix

About the Editor xiv

Notes on Contributors xv

Series Editor's Preface xxiii

Acknowledgments xxv

Introduction 1 André Dombrowski

Part I What Was Impressionism? What Is an Impression? Definitions and New Directions 9

1 Impressionism and Criticism 11 Marnin Young

2 Rethinking the Origins of Impressionism: The Case of Claude Monet and Corner of a Studio 27 Mary-Dailey Desmarais

3 Monet in the 1880s: The Motif in Crisis 43 Marc Gotlieb

4 As a Glass Eye: Manet's Flower Paintings 61 Briony Fer

5 Figuring Perception: Monet's Leap into Plein Air, 1866-1867 75 Michael Marrinan

6 Pater, Impressionism, and the Undoing of Sense 93 Jeremy Melius

7 The Impressionist Mind: Modern Painting and Nineteenth-Century Readerships 107 Ségolène Le Men

Part II Painting as Object: Tools, Materials, and Close Looking 127

8 Impression, Improvisation, and Premeditation: New Insights into the Working Methods and Creative Process of Claude Monet 129 Gloria Groom and Kimberley Muir

9 Piquer, Plaquer: Cézanne, Pissarro, and Palette-Knife Painting 146 Nancy Locke

10 John Singer Sargent's Lady with a Blue Veil and the Matter of Paint 162 Susan Sidlauskas

Part III New Visual Media and the Other Arts 181

11 Painting Photographing Ballooning: At the Boulevard des Capucines 183 Carol M. Armstrong

12 Series and Screens: Seeing Monet's Cathedrals through the Lens of the Cinematograph 201 Marine Kisiel

13 Critical Impressionism: A Painting by Mary Cassatt and Its Challenge to the Social Rules of Art 219 Anne Higonnet

14 James McNeill Whistler: Veiling the Everyday 234 Caroline Arscott

Part IV Impressionism and Identity 251

15 Cassatt's Alterity 253 Hollis Clayson

16 Bazille, Degas, and Modern Black Paris 271 [Excerpt from Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today, Yale University Press, pp. 70-83, with a new preface. Reprinted with permission from Yale University Press] Denise Murrell

17 Expert Hands, Infectious Touch: Painting and Pregnancy in Morisot's The Mother and Sister of the Artist 287 Mary Hunter

18 Painting the Prototype: The (Homo)Sexuality of Bazille's Summer Scene 304 Jonathan D. Katz, with André Dombrowski

Part V Public and Private 323

19 Revival and Risk: Renoir, Fragonard, and the Epistolary Theme 325 Nina L. Dubin

20 "The Little Dwarf and the Giant Lady:" At Home with Gustave Caillebotte 343 Felix Krämer

21 Renoir, Impressionism, and the Value of Touch 357 Martha Lucy

22 Morisot's Urbane Ecologies 375 Alison Syme

23 Incorporating Impressionism: The Société anonyme and the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874 393 André Dombrowski

Part VI World Impressionism 415

24 "Plume Mania:" Degas, Feathers, and the Global Millinery Trade 417 Simon Kelly

25 Home and Alienation in the Colonies: Auguste Renoir in Algiers, Jean Renoir in India 435 Todd Porterfield

26 Impressionism in Japan: The Awakening of the Senses 452 Takanori Nagaï

27 Impressionism in Argentina: A Historiographical Discussion 466 Laura Malosetti Costa

28 Turkish Impressionism: Interplays of Culture and Form 484 Ahu Antmen

29 Impressionism and Naturalism in Germany: The Competing Aesthetic and Ideological Imperatives of a Modern Art 499 Alex Potts

Part VII Criticism, Displays, and Markets 517

30 Degenerate Art: Impressionism and the Specter of Crisis in French Painting 519 Neil McWilliam

31 Impressionism through the Prism of New Methods: A Social and Cartographic Study of Monet's Address Book 533 Félicie Faizand de Maupeou

32 Against the Grain: Gustave Caillebotte and Paul Durand-Ruel's Impressionism 547 Mary Morton

33 Are Museum Curators "Very Special Clients?" Impressionism, the Art Market, and Museums (Paul Durand-Ruel and the Musée du Luxembourg at the Turn of the Twentieth Century) 566 Sylvie Patry

34 The Museum of Impressionism, 1947 583 Martha Ward

Index 601