Picture titles : how and why Western paintings acquired their names / Ruth Bernard Yeazell.

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]

xiii, 331 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm

Naming and circulating : middlemen. Before titles ; Dealers and notaries ; Early cataloguers ; Academics ; Printmakers ; Curators, critics, friends--and more dealers -- Reading and interpreting : viewers. Reading by the title ; The power of a name ; Many can read print ; Reading against the title -- Authoring as well as painting : artists. The force of David's Oath ; Turner's poetic Fallacies ; Courbet's Studio as manifesto ; Whistler's Symphonies and other instructive Arrangements ; Magritte and The use of words ; Johns's No and the painted word.

Includes bibliographical references and index.