02655nam 2200601 450 991082018590332120240131142206.01-4438-5259-7(CKB)2550000001128046(EBL)1477511(OCoLC)859834444(SSID)ssj0001154665(PQKBManifestationID)11948890(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001154665(PQKBWorkID)11163114(PQKB)10953713(Au-PeEL)EBL1477511(CaPaEBR)ebr10778092(CaONFJC)MIL528680(OCoLC)1230507373(FINmELB)ELB147981(MiAaPQ)EBC1477511(EXLCZ)99255000000112804620131108d2013 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCollecting East and West /edited by Susan Bracken, Andrea M. Gáldy and Adriana TurpinNewcastle upon Tyne, UK :Cambridge Scholars Publishing,2013.1 online resource (252 p.)Collecting HistoriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4438-4779-8 1-299-97429-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; INDEXIf 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 atCollecting HistoriesArtCollectors and collectingArtCollectors and collecting.252Bracken Susan1648162Gáldy Andrea M870292Turpin Adriana1648163MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820185903321Collecting East and West3996141UNINA