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Collections of nothing / / William Davies King



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Autore: King W. D (W. Davies) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Collections of nothing / / William Davies King Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 2008
©2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (163 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 790.1/32
Soggetto topico: Collectors and collecting - United States
Collectors and collecting - Psychological aspects
Collectors and collecting
Soggetto non controllato: collecting, collectors, hoarding, accumulation, consumption, material culture, memoir, biography, autobiography, acquisition, stamps, psychology, minimalism, detritus, miscellanea, loneliness, materialism, collectibles, curating, freud, hobby, obsession, cereal boxes, drawings, dictionaries, ephemera, objects, worth, value, useless, obsolescence, nonfiction
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: 1 NOTHING LOST; 2 NOTHING GAINED; 3 NOTHING REGAINED; 4 NOTHING TO KEEP; 5 NOTHING SPECIAL; 6 NOTHING AT ALL; 7 THE REST; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Sommario/riassunto: Nearly everyone collects something, even those who don't think of themselves as collectors. William Davies King, on the other hand, has devoted decades to collecting nothing-and a lot of it. With Collections of Nothing, he takes a hard look at this habitual hoarding to see what truths it can reveal about the impulse to accumulate. Part memoir, part reflection on the mania of acquisition, Collections of Nothing begins with the stamp collection that King was given as a boy.
Titolo autorizzato: Collections of nothing  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-00495-6
9786612004957
0-226-43709-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782996403321
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