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Contemporary collecting : objects, practices, and the fate of things /

In Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things, Kevin M. Moist and David Banash have assembled several essays that examine collecting practices on both a personal and professional level. These essays situate collectors and collections in a contemporary context and also show h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Moist, Kevin M., 1969-, Banash, David C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Incorporated, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Collecting in a Virtual World
  • Meditations in an Emergency : On the Apparent Destruction of My mp3 Collection / Marcus Boon
  • Matthew Collecting, Curating, and the Magic Circle of Ownership in a Postmaterial Culture / James Vechinski
  • Searching for Cap'n Ernie's Treasure Chest : Collecting and Sharing the Lost History of Live Local Television Genres / Phillip Hutchison
  • Part 2. Changing Relationships with Things
  • Virtual Life and the Value of Objects : Nostalgia, Distinction, and Collecting in the Twenty-First Century / David Banash
  • Memory, Desire, and the "Good Collector" in PEZhead Culture / Daniel DeChaine
  • Suited for Nothing : Collecting Second Hand / William Davies King
  • The World As Things : Collecting Thoughts On Collecting / Stanley Cavell
  • Part 3. Collecting and Identity, Personal and Political
  • From the Attic to the Mallpark : A Collection's Transition from Private to Public in a New Professional Baseball Stadium / Stephen A. Andon
  • Collecting "History in the Making" : The Privatization of Propaganda in National Socialist Cigarette Cards / Mechtild Widrich
  • "The record of a life" : Nation and Narrative in Victorian Women's Collections / Terri Baker
  • Part 4. Collecting Practices and Cultural Hierarchies
  • Distraction and Display : the Curiosity Cabinet and the Romantic Museum / Sophie Thomas
  • Collection and Parody : Taliesin and House on the Rock / Mary Titus
  • Record Collecting as Cultural Anthropology / Kevin M. Moist.