Acts of Possession

Collecting in America
Herausgeber: Dilworth, Leah

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing upon the body of theoretical work on collecting, the contributors investigate how, what and why Americans have collected and why they are attracted to certain objects, exploring the inherent meanings behind systems of organization and display.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 179mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9780813532721
• ISBN-10: 0813532728
• Artikelnr.: 22306860

Autorenporträt

LEAH DILWORTH is an associate professor of English at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus and the author of Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
"And a Little Child Shall Lead Them": American Children's Cabinets of
Curiosities
Dreaming in Commerce: Advertising Trade Card Scrapbooks
Collecting the Nation: Visions of Nationalism in Two Civil War-Era
Photograph Albums
The Curious Cabinet of Dr. Morton
Collecting Mr. Ayer's Narrative
En/Gendering the Whitney's Collection of American Art
Small Mercies: Colleen Moore's Doll House and the National Charity Tour
Tradition and the Individual Memory: The Case of Christian C. Sanderson
All Buy Our Selves at Household Auctions 
American Icons
Exhibiting Nazi Artifacts and Challenging Traditional Museum Culture: A
Conversation with Mitchell Wolfson Jr. 
The Serial Killer as Collector
Notes on Contributors
Index