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

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

312 pages first pub 1993 (view 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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