So I go into the NUA Library on Monday to find more on collecting with my Learner Support to discover something rather annoying
The book I had been seeking at UEA was in our library all along
There goes my money for chips awwwww
In the meantime, I have quotes from this book that should help me greatly (I have also returned "Evocative Objects" to Bradley as I have been unable to salvage any more quotes as powerful as those I have now)
--------------------
Cabinets of Curiosities, or Rooms of Wonders, were the astonishing creation of collectors who wished to gather together everything, all knowledge - animal, vegetable or man-made - into a single unimaginable space. An entire universe in minature. (Patrick Mauries, Cabinets of Curiosities)
--------------------
On Collecting: An investigation into collecting in the European Tradition
(Susan M. Pearce)
...The way...objects are tokens of remembrance, respect and love...
...collecting is itself a form of consumption...
The usual distinction drawn between 'collector' and 'miser/acuumulator/horder' is that the collector has a 'rational' purpose in mind which the other does not.
The pure collector's interest implies order, system, perhaps completion. The pure collector's interest is not bounded by the intrinsic worth of the objects of his desire; whatever they cost, he must have them. (Aristides, 1988: 330)
What seems to one person to be simply an attractive row of jars on the kitchen shelf may to another person be the nucleus of an important containers collection.
Collecting and collections are part of our dynamic relationship with the material world.
...collecting is a more powerful activity than might at first appear...it is an active intervention into a social reality which is merely one construct among potential others.
Its important that I own a bit of the universe. I will not stop as long as there is room in the house for them. (People's Show 1992)
The collecting middle ground is a messy, chancy, exciting place, where all sorts of people play.
--------------------
These are some very handy quotes I discovered within the pages.
No comments:
Post a Comment