The New painting: impressionism, 1874-1886 : an exhibition organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco with the National Gallery of Art, Washington

Contents

Directors' preface / Ian McKibbin White, J. Carter Brown -- Introduction / Charles S. Moffett -- The Impressionists and Edouard Manet / Stéphane Mallarmé -- The new painting / Louis Emile Edmond Duranty -- The intransigent artist or how the Impressionists got their name / Stephen F. Eisenman -- The end of Impressionism / Richard Shiff -- The first exhibition 1874 : the first Impressionist exhibition in context / Paul Tucker -- The second exhibition 1876 : a failed attempt / Hollis Clayson -- The third exhibition 1877 : the "first" exhibition of Impressionist painters / Richard R. Brettell -- The fourth exhibition 1879 : contemporary popularity and posthumous neglect / Ronald Pickvance -- The fifth exhibition 1880 : disarray and disappointment / Charles S. Moffett -- The sixth exhibition 1881 : Realists among the Impressionists / Fronia E. Wissman -- The seventh exhibition 1882 : the painters called Impressionists / Joel Isaacson -- The eighth exhibition 1886 : the rhetoric of independence and innovation / Martha Ward -- La nouvelle peinture / Louis Emile Edmond Duranty.