Author: New South Wales Free Public Library, SydneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: New South Wales Free Public Library, SydneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Picture Titles
Author: Ruth Bernard YeazellPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691165270
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
How the practice of titling paintings has shaped their reception throughout modern history A picture's title is often our first guide to understanding the image. Yet paintings didn’t always have titles, and many canvases acquired their names from curators, dealers, and printmakers—not the artists. Taking an original, historical look at how Western paintings were named, Picture Titles shows how the practice developed in response to the conditions of the modern art world and how titles have shaped the reception of artwork from the time of Bruegel and Rembrandt to the present. Ruth Bernard Yeazell begins the story with the decline of patronage and the rise of the art market in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as the increasing circulation of pictures and the democratization of the viewing public generated the need for a shorthand by which to identify works at a far remove from their creation. The spread of literacy both encouraged the practice of titling pictures and aroused new anxieties about relations between word and image, including fears that reading was taking the place of looking. Yeazell demonstrates that most titles composed before the nineteenth century were the work of middlemen, and even today many artists rely on others to name their pictures. A painter who wants a title to stick, Yeazell argues, must engage in an act of aggressive authorship. She investigates prominent cases, such as David’s Oath of the Horatii and works by Turner, Courbet, Whistler, Magritte, and Jasper Johns. Examining Western painting from the Renaissance to the present day, Picture Titles sheds new light on the ways that we interpret and appreciate visual art.
Art-Union
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Vol. for 1867 includes Illustrated catalogue of the Paris Universal Exhibition.
The Art-union
Author: Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, for the Years 1869-87
Author: Public Library of New South WalesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Spectator
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Author: