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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: John Soane's cabinet of curiosities
    sub title: reflections on an architect and his collection
  name:
    name part: Boucher, Bruce
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color plans ; 28 cm
  abstract: An in-depth study that sheds a fascinating new light on Sir John Soane (1753-1837) and his world-renowned collection. Sir John Soane's architecture has enjoyed a revival of interest over the last seventy years, yet Soane as a collector, the strategy behind and motivation for Soane's bequest to the nation has remained largely unexplored. While Soane referred to the display of objects in his house and museum as "studies for my own mind," he never explained what he meant by this, and the ambiguity surrounding his motivation remains perennially fascinating. This book illuminates a side of Soane's personality unfamiliar to most students of his life and work by examining key strands in his collection and what they reveal about Soane and the psychology of collecting. Topics include the display of antiquities; his fascination with ruins, both literal and figurative; his singular response to Gothic architecture; and his investment in modern British painting and sculpture. These aspects are bookended by an introductory biographical chapter that highlights the ways in which his family and career informed his collecting habits as well as an epilogue that analyzes the challenges of turning a private house and collection into a public museum.
  note: Bruce Boucher.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Soane, John
      name part: 1753-1837
    topic: Art collections
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sir John Soane's Museum.
  subject:
    topic: Art
    topic: Private collections
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
  subject:
    topic: Art
    topic: Collections privées
    geographic: Angleterre
    geographic: Londres
  classification: N5247.S585 B68 2024
  classification: 708.2/142
  identifier: 9780300275698
  identifier: 0300275692
  identifier: 2023949274
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 231027
    record change date: 20250318222620.4
    record identifier: in00005466780
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng