The Collector's Voice - Critical Readings in the Practice of Collecting: Volume 4: Contemporary Voices

List of contents

General preface; Introduction, Susan Pearce and Paul Martin; Talk between men and women; Consuming voices; Talking collectibles; Collecting stores; Discourses of possibility; Future voices; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Susan Pearce, Rosemary Flanders, Fiona Morton

Summary

This volume focuses on the nature and study of collectors and collecting from 1960 onwards. Concentrating on "new" collecting, this volume explores how old trends such as the collecting of antiques, have been superseded by the collection of more "everyday" items, such as telephone cards.

Product details

• Authors: Rosemary Flanders, Flanders Rosemary, Fiona Morton, Morton Fiona, Susan Pearce
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2002
• EAN: 9781859284209
• ISBN: 978-1-85928-420-9
• No. of pages: 348
• Weight: 900 g
• Series: Perspectives on Collecting
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Antiques & collectables, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Antiques, vintage and collectables