PICTURE TITLES

A picture's title is often our first guide to understanding the image. Yet paintings didn't always have titles, and many canvases ac quired their names from curators, dealers, and printmakers--not the artists. Taking an original, historical look at how Western pain tings were named, Picture Titles shows how the practice developed in response to the conditions of the modern art world and how titl es have shaped the reception of artwork from the time of Bruegel and Rembrandt to the present. Ruth Bernard Yeazell begins the story with th...[Read more]