The Essential Impressionism Bibliography

While this is not exactly a topic that makes millions of hearts go pitter-pat, I have spent an amazing amount of time reading approximately 84,000 books on Impressionism lately. Just Impressionism as it was born in France, mind you, not its dozens of offshoots or its eventual "cast of thousands" artists roster. As I was doggedly a-researching and garnering paper cuts, I kept a running list of titles with you in mind. Which books could be recommended with confidence? Certainly not all of them. Some hefty volumes would make excellent boat anchors, and were exactly that exciting. Some overpowered me with their awesome heavy-eyelid abilities, and I'd come to face down and drooling. Some lacked for scholarship, while others were brimming with the world's worst image reproductions. In several notable cases, there were rather unfortunate combinations of the above faults in one tome. You won't see any of those books here.

No, for you I've assembled the cream of the crop. Every one is a winner, must-have, classic or future classic, well written and researched, gotta-read offering. (One is even free, if you order before midnight ... ha! I kid. I kid because I love. Really, just follow the link in the article.) As if this weren't enough, the mother in me added a few titles for younger readers - because you simply can't get children interested in art early enough. So, what are you waiting for? Go, read The Essential Impressionism Bibliography and then tell me: what, in your opinion, did I miss and why do you think it should have been included? The "comments" field (link follows below) is open for business.