UID:
edocfu_9961601527702883
Format:
1 online resource (112 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
94-6426-232-X
Content:
Why do we collect? Where does the urge to collect come from? This book explores the phenomenon of collecting in various contexts. Collecting is an illustration of a strong human-thing entanglement. It can be caused by psychological incentives that are deeply rooted in human doubts and anxieties. It is also related to building a pleasant, unthreatening, and even paradisical, environment to compensate for the uncertainties of everyday life.The chapters in this book range from psychological perspectives in the Habsburg empire to Rococo collecting in France, from a fanatic English book collector to a 16th/17th century encyclopaedic Dutch collector. And finally the fascinating story of Baron Edmond de Rothschild's boxes.The contributions to this book were first presented as papers at the seminar "The Psychology of Collecting" in April 2022, organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Group "Museums, Collections and Society" of Leiden University, Netherlands.
Note:
Intro -- Foreword: The Urge to Collect -- The Urge to Collect: An Introduction -- Pieter ter Keurs, Leiden University -- What Drives the Collector? -- The Case of Rococo Collecting -- Caroline van Eck -- From Hegel to Freud -- Imperial Museums and the Rise of Psychology in the History of Culture, between Triumphalism and Criticism -- Pascal Griener, École du Louvre, Paris -- Tulips, Rabies and Books -- Cecilia Hurley, Ecole du Louvre/University of Neuchâtel -- How to Form a Wunderkammer in 1600 -- The Encyclopedic Collection of Bernardus Paludanus (1550-1633) -- Marika Keblusek, Leiden University -- Storing and Staging: Baron Edmond's Boxes -- Juliet Carey, Senior Curator, Waddesdon Manor -- Blank Page.
Additional Edition:
Print version: O'Farrell, Holly The Urge to Collect Leiden : Sidestone Press,c2023
Language:
English
Keywords:
proceedings (reports)
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Conference papers and proceedings.
;
Actes de congrès.
;
proceedings (reports)
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Conference papers and proceedings.
;
Actes de congrès.
