A review by amr2024
Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present by Erin Thompson

2.0

I was excited for this topic but the book is narrow in scope and its thesis is contradictory. Each example that the author provided did not explain her claim that art collectors did not collect for just social prestige. It was interesting to know that there is a long history of sculptures being modified because owners could not stand the nudity or sexual attributes of the statues.