TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction / André Dombrowski -- 1. Impressionism and Criticism / Marnin Young -- 2. Rethinking the Origins of Impressionism: The Case of Claude Monet and 'Corner of a Studio' / Mary-Dailey Desmarais -- 3. Monet in the 1880s: The Motif in Crisis / Marc Gotlieb -- 4. As a Glass Eye: Manet's Flower Paintings / Briony Fer -- 5. Figuring Perception: Monet<U+2019>s Leap into "Plein Air", 1866<U+2013>1867 / Michael Marrinan -- 6. Pater, Impressionism, and the Undoing of Sense / Jeremy Melius -- 7. The Impressionist Mind: Modern Painting and Nineteenth-Century Readerships / Ségolène Le Men -- 8. Impression, Improvisation, and Premeditation: New Insights into the Working Methods and Creative Process of Claude Monet / Gloria Groom and Kimberley Muir -- 9. "Piquer, Plaquer": Cézanne, Pissarro, and Palette-Knife Painting / Nancy Locke -- 10. John Singer Sargent's "Lady with a Blue Veil" and the Matter of Paint / Susan Sidlauskas -- 11. Painting Photographing Ballooning: At the Boulevard des Capucines / Carol M. Armstrong -- 12. Series and Screens: Seeing Monet's Cathedrals through the Lens of the Cinematograph / Marine Kisiel -- 13. Critical Impressionism: A Painting by Mary Cassatt and Its Challenge to the Social Rules of Art / Anne Higonnet -- 14. James McNeill Whistler: Veiling the Everyday / Caroline Arscott -- 15. Cassatt's Alterity / Hollis Clayson -- 16. Bazille, Degas, and Modern Black Paris / Denise Murrell -- 17. Expert Hands, Infectious Touch: Painting and Pregnancy in Morisot's 'The Mother and Sister of the Artist' / Mary Hunter -- 18. Painting the Prototype: The (Homo)Sexuality of Bazille's Summer Scene / Jonathan D. Katz, with André Dombrowski -- 19. Revival and Risk: Renoir, Fragonard, and the Epistolary Theme / Nina L. Dubin -- 20. "The Little Dwarf and the Giant Lady": At Home with Gustave Caillebotte / Felix Krämer -- 21. Renoir, Impressionism, and the Value of Touch / Martha Lucy -- 22. Morisot' Urbane Ecologies / Alison Syme -- 23. Incorporating Impressionism: The Société Aonyme and the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874 / André Dombrowski -- 24. "Plume Mania": Degas, Feathers, and the Global Millinery Trade / Simon Kelly -- 25. Home and Alienation in the Colonies: Auguste Renoir in Algiers, Jean Renoir in India / Todd Porterfield -- 26. Impressionism in Japan: The Awakening of the Senses / Takanori Nagaï -- 27. Impressionism in Argentina: A Historiographical Discussion / Laura Malosetti Costa -- 28. Turkish Impressionism: Interplays of Culture and Form / Ahu Antmen -- 29. Impressionism and Naturalism in Germany: The Competing Aesthetic and Ideological Imperatives of a Modern Art / Alex Potts -- 30. Degenerate Art: Impressionism and the Specter of Crisis in French Painting / Neil McWilliam -- 31. Impressionism through the Prism of New Methods: A Social and Cartographic Study of Monet's Address Book / Félicie Faizand de Maupeou -- 32. Against the Grain: Gustave Caillebotte and Paul Durand-Ruel's Impressionism / 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) / Sylvie Patry -- 34. The Museum of Impressionism, 1947 / Martha Ward