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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820185903321

Titolo

Collecting East and West / / edited by Susan Bracken, Andrea M. Gáldy and Adriana Turpin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-4438-5259-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Collecting Histories

Altri autori (Persone)

BrackenSusan

GáldyAndrea M

TurpinAdriana

Disciplina

252

Soggetti

Art - Collectors and collecting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ABSTRACTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

If collecting the rare and valuable is an entirely normal trait of human behaviour, amassing objects from far-away places has also long played a role in the history of collecting. "East" and "West", or "North" and "South", for that matter, are of course entirely relative to one's particular geographical position. Therefore, it is interesting that collecting exotic objects is an endeavour that unites humanity over millennia and round the globe. The ancient Assyrians did so as assiduously as eighteenth-century collectors in Paris or London; Chinese emperors collected Western art and artefacts at