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The cultures of collecting
- Title
- The cultures of collecting / edited by John Elsner and Roger Cardinal.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.
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- Description
- viii, 312 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- miscellanies.
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Miscellanées.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-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 Kurt Schwitters / Roger Cardinal -- Telling objects : a narrative perspective on 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 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.
- ISBN
- 0674179927
- 9780674179929
- 0674179935
- 9780674179936
- LCCN
- 93081271
- OCLC
- ocm32129719
- 32129719
- SCSB-9725133
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library