Foreword to the 1993 Edition by Harrison C. White
Preface
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Introduction
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1. Roots of the Nineteenth-Century Art Machine
Artist as Learned Man: Triumph of the Royal Academy
Paris: The Magnet
Genesis of the Dealers
Critics’ Emergence
Persistence of Guild Patterns
Notes
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2. The Machine in Flower
Government Patronage and the New Elite
Training: Official Route to Success
The Education of Hippolyte Flandrin
Realities of Training
The Salon: Proving Ground
The Prestige of French Painting
A Small Army
The Home Guard
Dividing the Spoils
Notes
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3. A New System Emerges
Change in Social Context
Changing Techniques and the Artist’s Role
A Glut in Search of a Market
Canvases vs. Careers
Subject Matter, Styles, and Markets
The Dealer-Critic System
Individual Careers and the New System
Decay of the Academic System
Might-Have-Beens
François Bonvin: Between Two Systems
Notes
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4. The Impressionists: Their Roles in the New System
"For Fear of Remaining a Nonentity"
Official Training—and Alternatives
First Meetings and Working Relationships
A Piece of a Meaning
To Instruct the Public: Critic as Theorist
The Critic as Publicist and Ideologue
The Dealer as Speculator
The Dealer as Patron
"It’s a Wonderful Business Being a Bourgeois—without a Cent!"
Manet’s Sales
Pissarro’s Finances
Monet’s Money
An Expendable Weapon: The Group Show
Impressionists and the Dealer-Critic System
Notes
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Conclusions
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Afterword to the 1993 Edition by Cynthia A. White
Index
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