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Words, books, and the spaces they inhabit
- Title
- Words, books, and the spaces they inhabit / Mari Shaw ; with a text by Anthony Allen.
- Author
- Shaw, Mari
- Publication
- Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | N5200 .S53 2017 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Allen, Anthony
- Description
- 99 pages : illustratons (some color), maps; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Words, Books, and the Spaces They Inhabit" is the first of Mari Shaw's series The Noble Art of Collecting. With examples of unexpected collectors and serendipitous outcomes, Shaw investigates the obscure desires that shape art collecting and the public goodwill that results from it. What was lost when the scrolls in the ancient library of Alexandria were destroyed? How did Catherine the Great's collecting change the way we think? How do Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com expand our appreciation of books as objects? Though the ways we communicate live and vary, history has been created, recorded, and preserved in writing. Words and the spaces that contain them are crucial to an empathetic understanding of our world.
- Series Statement
- The noble art of collecting ; book one
- Shaw, Mari. Noble art of collecting ; bk. 1.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9783956793462
- 3956793463
- LCCN
- 2017439881
- 9783956793462
- OCLC
- on1000513689
- 1000513689
- SCSB-8912946
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library