The cultures of collecting
1994, 1st edition. London : Reaktion Books. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #391281
ISBN: 0948462515
Series: Critical Views. Physical description: viii, 312 pages, illustrations, 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index. Contents: 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 Curt Schwitters / Roger Cardinal; Telling objects: a narrative perspective on collecting / Mieke Bal; Licenced 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. Subjects: Museums and Galleries; Collectors and collecting; Miscellanea; Art collections: Psychological Aspects; Museums Acquisitions; Collectors : Museum Studies; Museology; Museums and society; Museums History; Imperialism in art; Collectors and collecting Great Britain History 19th century.
Price: €28.95