摘要：The article discusses the relationship of the artist and the artist's name and the relationship between a work of art and its title. The main topics are art and verbal invasion, including naming and signing a work of art. Sarapik also analyses author's name as proper name, relations of name and biography, traces of name and pseudonyms, marking and indicating, and author metonymy, approaching the subject matter semiotically. The author's name and the proper name move in different systems, and we cannot really say that in terms of the author-work relationship the system of proper name (or that of author in everyday human existence) would be primary. A name is a sign, which moves, seemingly unalterably, from one system to another and the borders between different semiotic systems tend to fade. The exact definition of a work of art presupposes that both the author and the title are mentioned. If in speech the author's name signifies the work, we may call it author metonymy. The metonymic use of the author's name occurs most frequently in art.
