Introduction : the critical history of Impressionism : an overview / Mary Tompkins Lewis
Pt. 1. 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 / Nicholas Green
3. Impressionist installations and private exhibitions / Martha Ward
Pt. 2. Landscapes of modernity
4. Framing the landscape / John House
5. environs of Paris / T. J. Clark
6. 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
Pt. 4. 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
Pt. 5. 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 Cezanne effect in the twentieth century / Richard Shiff.