On collecting : an investigation into collecting in the European tradition /

About one in three people in North America and Europe collects something. Collecting is clearly an important social phenomenon and yet surprisingly little is known about how and why we collect. On Collecting explores the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pearce, Susan M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Series:	Collecting cultures series.
Subjects:	Collectors and collecting > Europe > History. Collections > Europe > Histoire. Verzamelen. Verzamelaars. Collectionneurs et collections > Europe > Histoire. Collectors and collecting. Europe. Museums > Collections Europe History.
Online Access:	Publisher description

Table of Contents:

Collecting processes
Themes and parameters
Archaic themes of the long term
Mediterranean themes
Early modernist collectors
Classic modernist collecting
Collecting in a post-modernist world
Collecting culture
Collecting ourselves
Controlling collecting
Engendering collections
Collecting relationships
Collecting in time
Collecting in space
Material identities
Political parameters
The politics of value
Collecting the other, within and without
The other beyond and before
Collecting the shape of things to come
Relating collective values
Vested interests
Collecting in the European tradition.