The Cultures of collecting / edited by John Elsner and Roger Cardinal.
Published / Created:
London : Reaktion Books, 1994.
Physical Description:
viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-304) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / John Elsner and Roger Cardinal -- 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 the 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.