Here you find my sources on Edouard Manet, art history and art theory, and other sources used in the posts.
Sources on Diagramming and my own approach to diagramming you find on my page On Diagrams .

On Edouard Manet:

Allan, S., Beeny, E.A., Groom, G. (eds.) (2019), Manet and Modern Beauty. The Artist’s Last Years, Los Amgeles: Paul Getty Museum

Bataille, G. (1955), Manet, New York: Skira

Brombert, B.A. (1996), Edouard Manet. Rebel in a Frock Coat, University of Chicago Press

Clark, T.J. (1999), The Painting of Modern Life. Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers (revised edition), Princeton University Press

Collins, B.R. (ed.) (1996), 12 Views of Manet’s Bar, Princeton University Press
   including:

Richard Shiff, Introduction: Ascribing to Manet, Declaring the Author
Carol Armstrong, Counter, Mirror, Maid: Some Infra-thin Notes on A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Albert Boime, Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère as an Allegory of Nostalgia
David Carrier, Art History in the Mirror Stage: Interpreting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Kermit S. Champa, Le Chef d’Ourvre (bien connu)
Bradford R. Collins, The Dialectics of Desire, the Narcissism of Authorship: A Male Interpretation of the Psychological Origins of Manet’s Bar
Michael Paul Driskel, On Manet’s Binarism: Virgin and/or Whore at the Folies-Bergère
Jack Flam, Looking into the Abyss: The Poetics of Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Tag Gronberg, Dumshows: A Carefully Staged Indifference
James D. Herbert, Privilege and the Illusion of the Real
Jon House, In Front of Manet’s Bar: Subverting the “Natural”
Steven Z. Levine, Manet’s Man Meets the Gleam of Her Gaze: A Psychoanalytic Novel
Gisela Pollock, The “View from Elsewhere”: Extracts from a Semi-public Correspondence about the Visibility of Desire

Courthion, P. (2004), Edouard Manet, New York: Abrams

Dolan, T. (ed.)( 2016), Perspectives on Manet, London: Routledge

Dombrowski, (2016), Leben auf Manets Balkon, in: Gassner, H. & Hildebrand-Schat, V. (eds.), Manet – Sehen. Der Blick der Moderne, Hamburg: Michael Imhof Verlag

von Duve, T. (2000), Zum Aufbau von Manets Eine Bar in den Folies-Bergère, in: Belting,H. and Kamper, D. (eds.), Der Zweite Blick: Bildgeschichte and Bildreflexion, Muenchen: Wilhelm Fink Verlag

Fried, M. (1998), Manet’s Modernism or The Face of Painting in the 1860s, University of Chicago Press

Gassner, H. & Hildebrand-Schat, V. (eds.) (2016), Manet – Sehen. Der Blick der Moderne, Hamburg: Michael Imhof Verlag

Hanson, A.C. (1977), Manet and the Modern Tradition, Yale University Press

Harrison, Ch. (2009), An Introduction to Art, New Haven: Yale University Press

Herbert, R.L. (1988), Impressionism. Art. Leisure, and Parisian Society, New Haven/London: Yale University Press 

Hofmann, W. (1985), Edouard Manet. Das Frühstück im Atelier – Augenblicke des Nachdenkens, Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer Verlag

Hopp, G. (1968), Edouard Manet. Farbe und Bildgestalt, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter

House, J. (1986), Manet’s Naiveté, in: Wilson Bareau 

Kaak, J. (2016), Lehrjahre desAuges. Edouard Manret, gesehen mit Werner Hofmann, in: Gassner, H. & Hildebrand-Schat, V. (eds.), Manet – Sehen. Der Blick der Moderne, Hamburg: Michael Imhof Verlag

Kaak, J (2014), Zeitgenossenschaft. Zur Malerei Edouad Manets, München: Sieveking Verlag

Locke, N. (2001), Manet and the Family Romance, Princeton University Press

Lüthy, M. (2003), Bild und Blick in Manets Malerei, Berlin: Gbr. Mann Verlag

Lüthy, M. (2016), Die Wendung des Blicks, in: Gassner, H. & Hildebrand-Schat, V. (eds.), Manet – Sehen. Der Blick der Moderne, Hamburg: Michael Imhof Verlag

Rewald, J. (1961), The History of Impressionism, New York: The Museum of Modern Art

Richardson, J. (1982), Manet, London: Phaidon Press

Rubin, J. (2010), Manet, Paris: Flammarion

Sandblad, N. G. (1954), Manet. Three Studies in Artistic Conception, Lund: Hakan Ohlson

Tinterow, G. & Lacambre, G. (eds.) (2003), Manet / Velazquez. The French Taste for Spanish Painting, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tucker, P.H. (ed.)(1998), Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, Cambridge University Press

Vignot, E. (2020), Edouard Manet,  Paris: Edition Place de Victoires

Wilson Bareau, J. (1986), The Hidden Face of Manet. An investigation of the artist’s working process, London: Burlington Magazine

Wittmann, B. (2004), Gesichter geben. Edouard Manet und die Poetik des Portraits, München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag

Wittmann, B. (2016), Malerei auf den ersten Blick, in: Gassner, H. & Hildebrand-Schat, V. (eds.), Manet – Sehen. Der Blick der Moderne, Hamburg: Michael Imhof Verlag

Wollheim, R. (1987), Painting as an Art, Princeton University Press

Other references:

Baudelaire, Ch. (2010), The Painter of Modern Life (1863), London: Penguin Books

Boime, A. (1971), The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century, Bristol: Phaidon

Carrier, D. (1996), High Art. Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist Painting, The Pennsylvania State University Press

Cousin, V. (2017), The Philosophy of the Beautiful (London 1848), Miami, Fl: HardPress

Daston, L & Galison, P. (2010), Objectivity, New York: Zone Books

Goldstein, J. (2000), Mutations of the Self in Old Regime and Postrevolutionary France, in: Daston L. (ed.), Biographies of Scientific Objects, Chicago University Press

Graña, C. (2019), Fact & Symbol. Essays in the Sociology of Art and Literature (1971), New York: Routledge

Harrison, C., Wood, P. & Gaiger, J (eds) (2013), Art in Theory 1815 – 1900. An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing

Harrison, C. & Wood, P.(eds) (2013), Art in Theory 1900 – 2000. An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing

Oackley, T. (2009), From Attention to Meaning: Explorations in semiotics, linguistics, and rhetoric, Bern: Peter Lang AG

Pop, A. (2019), A Forest of Symbols. Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century, New York: Zone Books

Posner, D.N., Orenstein, C., Bell, J. (eds) (2014), The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance, London: Routledge

Rebentisch, J. (2012), Aesthetics of Installation Art, Berlin: Sternberg Press

Tomasello, M. (2019), Becoming Human, Harvard University Press

Seigel, J. (2005), The Idea of the Self. Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century, Cambridge University Press

Simmel, G. (1971), The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903), in: On Individuality and Social Forms. Selected Writings (edited by Donald N. Levine), University of Chicago Press

Simmel, G. (1971), The Stranger (1908), in: On Individuality and Social Forms. Selected Writings (edited by Donald N. Levine), University of Chicago Press

Simmel, G. (2005), Rembrandt: An Essay in the Philosophy of Art (1916), New York:Routledge

Steiner, W. (2010), The Real Real Thing. The Model in the Mirror of Art, University of Chicago Press

Tomasello, M. (2019), Becoming Human, Harvard University Press

Wagner, P (2000), “An Entirely New Object of Consciousness, of Volition, and of Thought”. The Coming into Being and (almost) Passing Away of ‘Society’ as a Scientific Object, in: Daston L. (ed.), Biographies of Scientific Objects, Chicago University Press

Pictures and sources:

Edouard Manet:

Edouard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass (1863): Masters of Art – Edouard Manet, Hastings: Delphi Classics, 2016

Edouard Manet, Lola de Valence, (1862): Masters of Art – Edouard Manet, Hastings: Delphi Classics, 2016

Edouard Manet, The Little Cavaliers (after Velasquez) (1859): Masters of Art – Edouard Manet, Hastings: Delphi Classics, 2016

Edouard Manet, The Old Musician (1861): Masters of Art – Edouard Manet, Hastings: Delphi Classics, 2016

Edouard Manet, Self Portrait with Palette (1879), Masters of Art – Edouard Manet, Hastings: Delphi Classics, 2016

Edouard Manet, Self Portrait with Scull-Cap (1879), Masters of Art – Edouard Manet, Hastings: Delphi Classics, 2016

Edouard Manet, Guérin’s Deuxième Essai de frontispiece (Polichinelle), etching (1861): S.P. Avery Collection, New York Public Library, Public Domain

Edouard Manet, The Fishing (La Peche) (1863): Masters of Art – Edouard Manet, Hastings: Delphi Classics, 2016

Edouard Manet, Music in the Tuileries (1861): Masters of Art – Edouard Manet, Hastings: Delphi Classics, 2016

Edouard Manet, Monk at Prayer, (1865): Masters of Art – Edouard Manet, Hastings: Delphi Classics, 2016

Edouard Manet, On the Beach, (1873): Masters of Art – Edouard Manet, Hastings: Delphi Classics, 2016

Edouard Manet, The Railway, (1873): Masters of Art – Edouard Manet, Hastings: Delphi Classics, 2016

Edouard Manet, Breakfast in the Atelier (The Luncheo), (1868): Masters of Art – Edouard Manet, Hastings: Delphi Classics, 2016

Other artists:

Gustave Caillebotte, Le Pont d’Europe  (1876): Wikipedia Public Domain

Gustave Caillebotte, At the Cafe, Rouen: Wikipedia Public Domain

Gustave Courbet, The Artist’s Studio. A Real Allegory (1855): Wikipedia Public Domain

Honoré Daumier, Battle of Schools – Realism versus Classic Idealism   (1855)

Giorgione, Pastoral Concert (1509) (now attributed to Titian): Wikipedia Public Domain

Alphonse Legros, Frontispiece etching to Fernand Desnoyers, The Théâtre de Polichinelle (1861): Paris, cliché Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Public Domain

Alphonse Legros, Le Théâtre de Polichinelle des Tuileries, lithograph (1861): Paris, cliché Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Public Domain

Claude Monet, Le Pont d’Europe (1877): Wikipedia Public Domain

Marcantonio Raimondi, Judgement of Paris (after Raphael) (1525): Wikipedia Public Domain

Diego Velazquez, Three Musicians (1618): Wikipedia Public Domain

Diego Velazquez, The Drinkers (The Triumph of Bacchus) (1629): Wikipedia Public Domain

Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas (1656): Wikipedia Public Domain

Johannes Vermeer, The Art of Painting (1668): Wikipedia Public Domain