num_pages: 464
description: In one of his sparkling aphorisms on the end of "optical" art, Marcel Duchamp suggested that the title of an artwork was an "invisible color." John Welchman now offers the first critical history of how and why modern artworks receive their titles. He shows that titles were seldom produced and can rarely be understood outside of the institutional parameters that made them visible-exhibitions, criticism, catalogues, and even national politics.
language: English
title: Invisible Colors: A Visual History of Titles
titlecomplete: Invisible Colors: A Visual History of Titles
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Yale University Press