The Cultures of Collecting by Thomas DeCosta Kaufmann, Nicholas Thomas, John Elsner, Mieke Bal, John Forrester, Anthony Alan Shelton, Naomi Schor, Robert Opie, Jean Baudrillard, John Windsor, Susan Stewart, Roger Cardinal
The Cultures of Collecting

Thomas DeCosta Kaufmann, Nicholas Thomas, John Elsner, Mieke Bal, John Forrester, Anthony Alan Shelton, Naomi Schor, Robert Opie, Jean Baudrillard, John Windsor, Susan Stewart, Roger Cardinal

312 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

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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 ephem...

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