366 pages 366 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Introduction: Dangerous Passions -- "Morceaux de musée": James's Human Bibelots -- Sardanapalus's Hoard -- The Collector in a Collectivist State -- Trash-Talking in The Arcades Project -- The Collector and His Circle -- Dilettante of Wonder: Einstein and Documents -- Epilogue: Hoarding in a Digital Age
Summary:
"Rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice that flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives and examines the relationship between literary modernism and twentieth-century practices of collecting objects through three author-collectors, Walter Benjamin, Carl Einstein, and Henry James"-- Provided by publisher