The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874-1886

San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; DelMonico Books - Prestel, 1986. 509 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Exhibition held at National Gallery of Art, 17 January to 6 April, 1986; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, 19 April to 6 July, 1986. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. This exhibition catalogue reproduces, in order, the exact works that were in the eight exhibitions of Impressionist art from 1874 to 1886. Includes many scholarly essays. CONTENTS: Directors' preface, by Ian McKibbin White, J. Carter Brown; Introduction, by Charles S. Moffett; The Impressionists and Edouard Manet, by Ste phane Mallarme ; The new painting, by Louis Emile Edmond Duranty; The intransigent artist or how the Impressionists got their name, by Stephen F. Eisenman; The end of Impressionism, by Richard Shiff; The first exhibition 1874: the first Impressionist exhibition in context, by Paul Tucker; The second exhibition 1876: a failed attempt, by Hollis Clayson; The third exhibition 1877: the "first" exhibition of Impressionist painters, by Richard R. Brettell; The fourth exhibition 1879: contemporary popularity and posthumous neglect, by Ronald Pickvance; The fifth exhibition 1880: disarray and disappointment, by Charles S. Moffett; The sixth exhibition 1881: Realists among the Impressionists, by Fronia E. Wissman; The seventh exhibition 1882: the painters called Impressionists, by Joel Isaacson; The eighth exhibition 1886: the rhetoric of independence and innovation, by Martha Ward; La nouvelle peinture, by Louis Emile Edmond Duranty.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. ..