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Paperback. Etat : Near fine. Later printing. Octavo with grey and white pictorial wraps; viii, 312 pages: illustrations; bibliography; 24 cm. Offering a spectrum of approaches to the phenomenon of collecting from the 16th century to the present, this book covers the collecting of any sort of material objects. It not only deals with the physical objects, but examines the organization of ideas and intellectual models of collecting. Contents: 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 in 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 / Naomi Schor.bishop. Near fine; slightest rubbing to extremities; clean and tight.…

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 312 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Etat : Used like new. Used like new softcover in glossy printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Shelf wear on top edge of cover. 8vo. (6.25 x 0.8 x 9.25 inches) Includes B&W photos, notes, bibliography, and an index. 391 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.…

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. illustrated edition. 256 pages. 8.50x6.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Etat : Brand New. new edition. 294 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.