Picture titles: how and why western paintings acquired their names
Auteur :
Yeazell, Ruth Bernard
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691165271
Date de publication :
29 sept. 2015
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
709 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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 c