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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant essays on collecting,
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This review is from: Cultures of Collecting (Reaktion Books - Critical Views) (Paperback)
There are a number of essays in this book that makes it worth reading. My favorites are:1. The System of Collecting by Jean Baudrillard - " (collections) constitute themselves as a system, on the basis of which the subject seeks to piece together his world . . ." 2. Collecting and Collage-making: The Case of Kurt Schwitters by Roger Cardinal 3. A Collector's Model of Desire: The House and Museum of Sir John Soane by John Elsner. If you are a rabid collector of anything, you will delight in this ULTIMATE collection in which a man turned everything he did and his very house into a museum. He made multiple catalogs of his "collection" throughout his life and arranged and rearranged until his death. It's an amazing story. There are 12 essays in all, including one on Freud's statue collection, Cook's collection from his Pacific voyages, and collections of the Austrian Habsburgs. I found it a fascinating read. |
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The Cultures of Collecting by John Elsner (Hardcover - Aug. 1994)
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