Beschreibung:
Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, an international, interdisciplinary group of authors consider the meanings and values with which objects are imputed and the processes and implications of collecting.
Introduction: objects, collectors and representations Part I: the mutuality between objects and persons Part II: Object meanings in context Part III: Collectors and collecting in focus Part IV: Representational and narrative strategies