(P/B) ON COLLECTING

Παρουσίαση

On Collecting examines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European tradition elsewhere.
Susan Pearce looks at the way we collect and what this tells us about ourselves and our society. She also explores the psychology of collecting: why do we bestow value on certain objects and how does this add meaning to our lives? Do men and women collect differently? How do we use objects to construct our identity?
This book breaks new ground in its analysis of our relationship to the material world. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Series editor's preface
List of plates
List of figures
Preface
Note to the paperback edition
Acknowledgements
PART I COLLECTING PROCESSES
1 Collecting Processes
PART II COLLECTING IN PRACTICE
2 Themes and Parameters
3 Archaic themes of the Long Term
4 Mediterranean themes
5 Early modernist collectors
6 Classic modernist collecting
7 Collecting in a post-modernist world
8 Collecting culture
PART III THE POETICS OF COLLECTING
9 Collecting ourselves
10 Controlling collecting
11 Engendering collections
12 Collecting relationships
13 Collecting in time
14 Collecting in space
15 Material identities
PART IV THE POLITICS OF COLLECTING
16 Political parameters
17 The politics of value
18 Collecting the Other, Within and Without
19 The Other Beyond and Before
20 Collecting the shape of things to come
21 Relating collective values
22 Vested interests
PART V COLLECTING IN THE EUROPEAN TRADITION
23 Collecting in the European Tradition
Bibliography
Index