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Pages: 224
Authors: Susan Pearce
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-03-23 - Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited

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This clear and lively book provides an illuminating analysis of collecting as a major social and individual phenomenon in contemporary society. The book is base
Contemporary Collecting
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Owain Rhys
Categories: Electronic books
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:

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This book deals succinctly and thoughtfully with the problems of collecting contemporary objects in museums. It aims to provide a working model for the future o
Collecting in Contemporary Practice
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Susan M. Pearce
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-03-23 - Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited

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This clear and lively book, based on the understanding of collecting practice rather than collections themselves, provides an illuminating analysis of collectin
Extreme Collecting
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Graeme Were
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting ‘difficult�
Collecting the New
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Bruce Altshuler
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-24 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not ye