This is the second in an ongoing series of issues featuring new scholarship on nineteenth-century art.

Table of Contents:

Social Theory and the Realist Impulse in Nineteenth-Century Art

By Alex Potts

The Ornamented Eiffel Tower: Awareness and Denial

By Hollis Clayson

Mallarmé and Impressionism in 1876

By Margaret Werth

The Making of Degas: Duranty, Technology, and the Meaning of Materials in Later Nineteenth-Century Paris

By Michelle Foa

Modernism and the Green Baize

By Allison Morehead

In Defense of Painting: Delacroix’s Lion Hunt at the 1855 Exposition Universelle

By Jennifer Olmsted