TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yeazell,Ruth Bernard
TI  - Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names 
SN  - 9780691165271
AV  - N7560 .Y43 2015eb
U1  - 702.8 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Painting
KW  - Titles of works of art
KW  - ART / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Allusion
KW  - Altarpiece
KW  - Ambroise Vollard
KW  - Anecdote
KW  - Art critic
KW  - Art criticism
KW  - Art dealer
KW  - Art history
KW  - Art world
KW  - Arthur Danto
KW  - Artists Rights Society
KW  - Bernard Berenson
KW  - Bourgeoisie
KW  - Canvas
KW  - Classical mythology
KW  - Claude Lorrain
KW  - Claude Monet
KW  - College Art Association
KW  - Contemporary art
KW  - Cosimo de' Medici
KW  - Cubism
KW  - Curator
KW  - Desk
KW  - Drapery
KW  - Dulcinea del Toboso
KW  - Eloquence
KW  - Emblem book
KW  - Emblem
KW  - Engraving
KW  - Evocation
KW  - Francisco Goya
KW  - Genre painting
KW  - Gerrit Dou
KW  - Grosvenor Gallery
KW  - Gruel
KW  - Guercino
KW  - Gustave Courbet
KW  - History painting
KW  - Iconography
KW  - Illustration
KW  - Impressionism
KW  - Isabella d'Este
KW  - J. M. W. Turner
KW  - Jackson Pollock
KW  - Jacques-Louis David
KW  - James Abbott McNeill Whistler
KW  - Jasper Johns
KW  - John Ruskin
KW  - Joshua Reynolds
KW  - Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
KW  - Lee Krasner
KW  - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Literature
KW  - Livy
KW  - Lorenzo Lotto
KW  - Marcel Duchamp
KW  - Mercure de France
KW  - Meyer Schapiro
KW  - Modern art
KW  - Monastery
KW  - Mr
KW  - Museum
KW  - Narrative
KW  - National Gallery of Art
KW  - National Gallery
KW  - Newspaper
KW  - Oath of the Horatii
KW  - Painting (Blue Star)
KW  - Parody
KW  - Perspective (graphical)
KW  - Pieter Bruegel the Elder
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Printmaking
KW  - Private collection
KW  - Publication
KW  - Rembrandt Research Project
KW  - Rembrandt
KW  - Renaissance art
KW  - René Magritte
KW  - Rijksmuseum
KW  - Saskia van Uylenburgh
KW  - Satire
KW  - Shorthand
KW  - Stefano Conti
KW  - Sterling Memorial Library
KW  - Surrealism
KW  - The Painted Word
KW  - Thomas J. Watson Library
KW  - Tom Wolfe
KW  - Visual culture
KW  - Western painting
KW  - Whistler's Mother
KW  - William Powell Frith
KW  - Work of art
KW  - Writing
KW  - Yale Center for British Art
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; Prologue (This is not a title) --; I. Naming and Circulating: Middlemen --; II. Reading and Interpreting: Viewers --; III. Authoring as well as Painting: Artists --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; NOTES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400873463?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400873463
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