Title & Author:

The cultures of collecting / edited by John Elsner and Roger Cardinal.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.

Description:

viii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) and index.
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 (pbk.)
9780674179936 (pbk.)

Subject:

Collectors and collecting Miscellanea.
Collectors and collecting Social aspects.
Collectors and collecting
Geschichte
Sammeln
Aufsatzsammlung
Verzamelen.
Collectionneurs et collections.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
miscellanies.
Trivia and miscellanea
Miscellanées.

Added entries:

Elsner, John.
Cardinal, Roger.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 189360
Call No.: ID AM235.C85; ID:94-B188
Status: Available

Location: Library main 189361
Call No.: ID AM235.C85; ID:94-B188
Status: Available