Cultures Of Collecting
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 1990
312 pages
978-1-86189-421-2 (ISBN)
Description
Cultures of Collecting traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to accumulate, focusing not only on the recognised collections of the Western canon, but also on collections that reflect a fascination with the 'other' and the marginal. 'an excellent addition to the literature on the subject' - Burlington Magazine
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Photographic Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Editors and Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The System of Collecting
- 2 'Unless you do these crazy things .': An Interview with Robert Opie
- 3 Identity Parades
- 4 Collecting and Collage-making: The Case of Kurt Schwitters
- 5 Telling Objects: A Narrative Perspective on Collecting
- 6 Licensed Curiosity: Cook's Pacific Voyages
- 7 From Treasury to Museum: The Collections of the Austrian Habsburgs
- 8 A Collector's Model of Desire: The House and Museum of Sir John Soane
- 9 Cabinets of Transgression: Renaissance Collections and the Incorporation of the New World
- 10 Death and Life, in that Order, in the Works of Charles Willson Peale
- 11 'Mille e tre': Freud and Collecting
- 12 Collecting Paris
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Index
