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Cultures of Collecting (Reaktion Books - Critical Views)
Cultures of Collecting - Reaktion Books - Critical Views Author:Roger Cardinal This book traces the psychology, history, and theory of the compulsion to collect. As well as institutional collections it considers those that reflect a fascination with the ephemeral, exotic, or just plain curious."[A] brilliant book . . . a good read. Analysis of the relationship of collecting to identity, memory, and pyschosexual development... more » raises fascinating questions."_The Modern Review"[I]t is by challenging and expanding upon previous ideas and histories of collecting that the book offers ways of rethinking not only the nature of collecting but also the nature of museum practice."_Art HistoryJohn Elsner is Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Roger Cardinal is Professor of Literary and Visual Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K.« less