The history of impressionism / (by) John Rewald

New York , Museum of Modern Art, 1961. Revised and enlaged edition. Hardcover. Physical description; 662 pages illustrations (some color) portraits, maps (on lining paper) 26 cm ; 26cm. Contents; The Paris World's Fair, 1855 -- A panorama of French art -- Monet and Boudin -- Manet and Degas -- L'Académie Suisse -- The atelier of Courbet -- Gleyre's studio -- The Salon des Refusés and the reorganization of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts -- Barbizon and its painters -- New salons -- Successes and disappiontments -- Zola as an art critic -- Another World's Fair -- Plans for a group exhibition -- More difficulties for Monet -- The Café Guerbois -- Japanese prints -- La Grenouillère -- The Salon of 1870 -- The Franco-Prussian War and the Commune -- Monet and Pissarro in London -- The years after the war -- Auvers-sur-Oise -- Another Salon des Refusés (1873) -- The first group exhibition (1874) and the origin of the word Impressionism -- Argenteuil -- Caillebotte and Chocquet -- Auction sales and further exhibitions -- First echoes abroad -- Duranty's pamphlet La nouvelle peinture -- The Café de la Nouvelle-Athènes -- Renoir, Sisley and Monet at the Salon -- A new art critic : Huysmans -- Serious disagreements -- More exhibitions and divisions of opinion -- The death of Manet -- Dissatisfaction and doubts -- Gauguin in Copenhagen -- Redon -- Seurat and Signac -- The Société de Indépendants (1884) -- The eighth and last Impressionist exhibition -- Durand-Ruel's first success in America -- Gauguin and van Gogh -- The years after 1886. Subjects; Impressionism (Art). Paintings, French. Impressionism (Art) France. Painting, French. Art, Modern 19th century. Painting, French 19th century. Painting, Modern 19th century France. Impressionism (Art). Paintings, French. Painting France. Art History. Impressionism.