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082	1		_a759.13 WIL _2
100	1		_aWilmerding, John
245	1	0	_aSigns of the artist _b: signatures and self-expression in American paintings _c/ John Wilmerding
260			_aNew Haven _b: B Yale University Press _c, 2003
300			_a203 p. _b: illus. _c; 27 cm
505	0	0	_aEuropean precedents -- American history, still life, and landscape -- Genre and later still-life painting -- Impressionism and realism -- Modernism.
520			_aSignatures 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.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aPainters _z-United States
650		4	_aAutographs
650		4	_aSignatures (Writing)
942			_cMO
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