Signs of the artist : signatures and self-expression in American paintings /
Wilmerding, John,
Signs of the artist : signatures and self-expression in American paintings / John Wilmerding. - xi, 203 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.
European Precedents -- American History, Still Life, and Landscape -- Genre and Later Still-Life Painting -- Impressionism and Realism -- Modernism. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
"Signatures are unique and often reveal something of our individual personalities. In this book, John Wilmerding - an eminent historian of American art - explores the unconventional use of signatures in paintings. The author focuses on American artists who have not simply signed their works on a corner of the canvas but intentionally placed their signatures within the pictorial space of the painting. A painter's name or initials might, for instance, appear as an illusion on a wall or floor, on an object within an interior, or on a form in a landscape. Wilmerding considers the significance of such signatures in works by twenty-seven American artists, from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, who projected themselves into their art in tantalizing ways."--BOOK JACKET.
0300097794 9780300097795
2002155890
Painters--United States--Autographs
Signatures (Writing)
ND205 / .W523 2003
759.130278
Signs of the artist : signatures and self-expression in American paintings / John Wilmerding. - xi, 203 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.
European Precedents -- American History, Still Life, and Landscape -- Genre and Later Still-Life Painting -- Impressionism and Realism -- Modernism. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
"Signatures are unique and often reveal something of our individual personalities. In this book, John Wilmerding - an eminent historian of American art - explores the unconventional use of signatures in paintings. The author focuses on American artists who have not simply signed their works on a corner of the canvas but intentionally placed their signatures within the pictorial space of the painting. A painter's name or initials might, for instance, appear as an illusion on a wall or floor, on an object within an interior, or on a form in a landscape. Wilmerding considers the significance of such signatures in works by twenty-seven American artists, from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, who projected themselves into their art in tantalizing ways."--BOOK JACKET.
0300097794 9780300097795
2002155890
Painters--United States--Autographs
Signatures (Writing)
ND205 / .W523 2003
759.130278