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Picture titles : how and why Western paintings acquired their names / Ruth Bernard Yeazell.

by Yeazell, Ruth Bernard, author.

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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2015.

Titles of works of art.

9780691165271 (hardcover : alk. paper)

0691165270 (hardcover : alk. paper)

xiii, 331 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

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.

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.

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