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The Urge to Collect

Motives, Obsessions and Tensions

The Urge to Collect
The Urge to Collect

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    2023

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The Urge to Collect

Motives, Obsessions and Tensions

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Why do we collect? Where does the urge to collect come from? This book explores the phenomenon of collecting in various contexts. Collecting is an illustration of a strong human-thing entanglement. It can be caused by psychological incentives that are deeply rooted in human doubts and anxieties. It is also related to building a pleasant, unthreatening, and even paradisical, environment to compensate for the uncertainties of everyday life. The chapters in this book range from psychological perspectives in the Habsburg empire to Rococo collecting in France, from a fanatic English book collector to a 16th/17th century encyclopaedic Dutch collector. And finally the fascinating story of Baron Edmond de Rothschild’s boxes. The contributions to this book were first presented as papers at the seminar "The Psychology of Collecting" in April 2022, organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Group “Museums, Collections and Society” of Leiden University, Netherlands.

Specifications

  • Publisher
    Sidestone Press
  • Edition
    1
  • Pub date
    Dec 2023
  • Pages
    106
  • Theme
    Museology and heritage studies
  • EAN
    9789464262315
  • Hardback / bound
    Hardback / bound
  • Language
    English

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