Picture quote (art)

In the visual arts and architecture, a picture quotation is understood to mean the adoption of a single form element from another work as a conscious reference to this foreign work (e.g. in the sense of a witty symbolic or alienating allusion). The quotation wants to be recognized as such and thereby creates a contextual relationship to the quoted work. Meaningful motifs can also be quoted.

As an independent means of expression in art, the quotation differs significantly (ie in terms of content) from the copy, from the resumption and further development (e.g. of a motif) and gradually from the formal allusion.

The copyright term image quotation must be strictly distinguished from this .

literature

• Margaret Aston: The King's Bedpost: Reformation and Iconography in a Tudor Group Portrait. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge et al. a. 1994, ISBN 0-521-44375-X . (about a picture quote from the 16th century in the painting Edwardt VI and the Pope from an engraving by Philip Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck )

• Jean Lipman : Art about Art. Dutton, New York 1978, ISBN 0-525-47502-8 . (Catalog for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art , New York, July 19, 1878 to September 24, 1978)

• Mahendra Singh (Illustration, 2010), Lewis Carroll (Poetry, 1876): The Hunting of the Snark . Melville House, Brooklyn NY 2010, ISBN 978-1-935554-24-0 . (Illustrations as an example of picture quotations annotated by the illustrator )