Signs of the artist : signatures and self-expression in American paintings / John Wilmerding.

By:

Wilmerding, John [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0300097794
9780300097795

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

759.130278 21

LOC classification:

ND205 .W523 2003

Contents:

1. European Precedents -- 2. American History, Still Life, and Landscape -- 3. Genre and Later Still-Life Painting -- 4. Impressionism and Realism -- 5. Modernism.

Review: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	759.130278 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A377768B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.

1. European Precedents -- 2. American History, Still Life, and Landscape -- 3. Genre and Later Still-Life Painting -- 4. Impressionism and Realism -- 5. Modernism.

"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.

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