Author: Alfred Russell Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Unique and Interesting Collection of Upwards of Twenty-six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets
Author: Alfred Russell Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Bibliotheca Elegantissima Et Selecta. A Catalogue of a ... Collection of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books; Chiefly in Early English Literature ... in ... Bindings by Mr. F. Bedford and ... Other Binders. To which is Added an Appendix, Containing a Selection of Rare and Curious Books in Early English Literature from the Libraries of ... John Mitford, and S.W. Singer, Esq. ... and an Assemblage of ... Illuminated Missals, Horae, &c., on Vellum ...
Author: Joseph Lilly
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Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Picture Titles
Author: Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
The Eighteenth Century
Author: Research Publications, inc
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN: 9780892350834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Based on the British Library's Eighteenth century short title catalogue (ESTC), and consisting of works printed in the British Empire, or printed in English anywhere else in the world from 1701 to 1800.
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN: 9780892350834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Based on the British Library's Eighteenth century short title catalogue (ESTC), and consisting of works printed in the British Empire, or printed in English anywhere else in the world from 1701 to 1800.
Catalogue of a Singularly Curious and Valuable Selection from the Library of a Gentlemen ...
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Manuscripts, Upon Papyrus, Vellum, and Paper, in Various Languages
Author: Thorpe, Thomas, firm, booksellers, London
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
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Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1801-1815
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Catalogue
Author:
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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