Picture titles : how and why Western paintings acquired their names / Ruth Bernard Yeazell.
- Yeazell, Ruth Bernard
- Date:
- [2015]
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Description
Shows how the practice of naming Western paintings developed in response to the conditions of the modern art world and how titles have shaped the reception of artwork.
Publication/Creation
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Physical description
xiii, 331 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
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Bibliographic information
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.
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Location Status History of MedicineZHA /YEAOpen shelves
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- 9780691165271
- 0691165270