Picture titles : how and why Western paintings acquired their names / Ruth Bernard Yeazell.
Published / Created:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Physical Description:
xiii, 331 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Naming and circulating : middlemen. Before titles ; Dealers and notaries ; Early cataloguers ; Academics ; Printmakers ; Curators, critics, friends--and more dealers -- Reading and interpreting : viewers. Reading by the title ; The power of a name ; Many can read print ; Reading against the title -- Authoring as well as painting : artists. The force of David's Oath ; Turner's poetic Fallacies ; Courbet's Studio as manifesto ; Whistler's Symphonies and other instructive Arrangements ; Magritte and The use of words ; Johns's No and the painted word.
Subject Terms:
Titles of works of art. | Painting. | Painting. | Titles of works of art.