The Cultures of Collecting
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Book
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ISBN 10
0522846300
ISBN 13
9780522846300
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Publication Year
1994
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Pages
320
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Abstract
This book traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to collect, focusing not just on the normative collections of the western canon, but also on collections that reflect a fascination with the "other" and the marginal the ephemeral, exotic, or just plain curious. There are essays on the Neoclassical architect Sir John Soane, Sigmund Freud and Kurt Schwitters, one of the masters of collage.
Description
1. The system of collecting / Jean Baudrillard
2. 'Unless you do these crazy things ...': an interview with Robert Opie
3. Identity parades / John Windsor
4. Collecting and collage-making: the case of Karl Schwitters / Roger Cardinal
5. Telling objects: a narrative perspective on collecting / Mieke Bal
6. Licensed curiosity: Cook's Pacific voyages / Nicholas Thomas
7. From treasury to museum: the collections of the Austrian Habsburgs / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
8. A collector's model of desire: the house and museum of Sir John Soane / John Elsner
9. Cabinets of transgression: Renaissance collections and the incorporation of the New World / Anthony Alan Shelton
10. Death and life, in that order, in the works of Charles Willson Peale / Susan Stewart
11. 'Mille e tre': Freud and collecting / John Forrester
12. Collecting Paris / Naomi Schor.
2. 'Unless you do these crazy things ...': an interview with Robert Opie
3. Identity parades / John Windsor
4. Collecting and collage-making: the case of Karl Schwitters / Roger Cardinal
5. Telling objects: a narrative perspective on collecting / Mieke Bal
6. Licensed curiosity: Cook's Pacific voyages / Nicholas Thomas
7. From treasury to museum: the collections of the Austrian Habsburgs / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
8. A collector's model of desire: the house and museum of Sir John Soane / John Elsner
9. Cabinets of transgression: Renaissance collections and the incorporation of the New World / Anthony Alan Shelton
10. Death and life, in that order, in the works of Charles Willson Peale / Susan Stewart
11. 'Mille e tre': Freud and collecting / John Forrester
12. Collecting Paris / Naomi Schor.
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