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The Cultures of Collecting
J Elsner
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This title includes essays by Jean Baudrillard, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Nicholas Thomas, Mieke Bal, John Forrester, John Windsor, Naomi Schor, Susan Stewart, Anthony Alan Shelton, John Elsner, Roger Cardinal and an interview with Robert Opie. 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 ... Read more
This title includes essays by Jean Baudrillard, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Nicholas Thomas, Mieke Bal, John Forrester, John Windsor, Naomi Schor, Susan Stewart, Anthony Alan Shelton, John Elsner, Roger Cardinal and an interview with Robert Opie. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Series
Critical Views
Condition
New
Weight
498g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780948462511
SKU
V9780948462511
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About J Elsner
John Elsner is Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Roger Cardinal is Professor of Literary and Visual Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Reviews for The Cultures of Collecting
a brilliant book ... a good read. Analysis of the relationship of collecting to identity, memory, and pyschosexual development raises fascinating questions. The Modern Review it is by challenging and expanding upon previous ideas and histories of collecting that the book offers ways of rethinking not only the nature of collecting but also the nature of museum practice. Art History ... Read more