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Table of Contents from: The Great Book of French Impressionism

Introduction

7

Chapter 1

Toward a Vision of Modern Life

21

Chapter 2

Edouard Manet: Reluctant Revolutionary

61

Chapter 3

The New Painting

107

Chapter 4

Claude Monet: Impressionist par Excellence

155

Chapter 5

Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Exuberant Impressionist

201

Chapter 6

Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: The Studied Moment

243

Chapter 7

The Impressionists in 1886

287

Chapter 8

Paul Cézanne and the Legacy of Impressionism

333

Notes 379

List of Illustrations 382

Selected Bibliography 394

Index 396

Acknowledgments 400

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