Title: The cultures of collecting /
Authors: Elsner, John.; Cardinal, Roger.
Date: 1994
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Physical description: viii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: A
Contents: Introduction / John Elsner and Roger Cardinal -- The System of Collecting / Jean Baudrillard -- 'Unless you do these crazy things...': An Interview with Robert Opie -- Identity Parades / John Windsor -- Collecting and Collage-making: The Case of Kurt Schwitters / Roger Cardinal -- Telling Objects: A Narrative Perspective on Collecting / Mieke Bal -- Licensed Curiosity: Cook's Pacific Voyages / Nicholas Thomas -- From Treasury to Museum: The Collections of the Austrian Habsburgs / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann -- A Collector's Model of Desire: The House and Museum of Sir John Soane / John Elsner -- Cabinets of Transgression: Renaissance Collections and the Incorporation of the New World / Anthony Alan Shelton -- Death and Life, in that Order, in the Works of Charles Willson Peale / Susan Stewart -- 'Mille e tre': Freud and Collecting / John Forrester -- Collecting Paris / John Forrester.
Subject headings (LCSH): Collectors and collecting--Miscellanea.; Collectors and collecting--Social aspects.; Collectors and collecting.