On collecting : an investigation into collecting in the European tradition /
About one in three people in North America and Europe collects something. Collecting is clearly an important social phenomenon and yet surprisingly little is known about how and why we collect. On Collecting explores the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European...
| Основен автор: | Pearce, Susan M. 1942- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2005 c1995.
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| Серия: |
The collecting cultures series
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Publisher description Book jacket |
Съдържание:
- Collecting processes
- Themes and parameters
- Archaic themes of the long term
- Mediterranean themes
- Early modernist collectors
- Classic modernist collecting
- Collecting in a post-modernist world
- Collecting culture
- Collecting ourselves
- Controlling collecting
- Engendering collections
- Collecting relationships
- Collecting in time
- Collecting in space
- Material identities
- Political parameters
- The politics of value
- Collecting the other, within and without
- The other beyond and before
- Collecting the shape of things to come
- Relating collective values
- Vested interests
- Collecting in the European tradition.