The cultures of collecting
John Elsner (Editor), Roger Cardinal (Editor)
Offering a spectrum of approaches to the phenomenon of collecting from the 16th century to the present, this book covers the collecting of any sort of material objects. It not only deals with the physical objects, but examines the organization of ideas and intellectual models of collecting
Trivia and miscellanea
viii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780948462504, 9780948462511, 0948462507, 0948462515
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The system of collecting / Jean Baudrillard
"Unless you do these crazy things" : an interview with Robert Opie
Identity parades / John Windsor
Collecting and collage-making : the case of Kurt Schwitters / Roger Cardinal
Telling objects : a narrative perspective in collecting / Mieke Bal
Licensed curiosity : Cook's Pacific voyages / Nicholas Thomas
From treasury to museum : the collections of the Austrian Habsburgs / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
A collector's model of desire : the house and museum of Sir John Soane / John Elsner
Cabinets of transgression : Renaissance collections and the incorporation of the new world / Anthony Alan Shelton
Death and life, in that order, in the works of Charles Willson Peale / Susan Stewart
"Mille e tre" : Freud and collecting / John Forrester
Collecting Paris / Naomi Schor