The cultures of collecting / edited by John Elsner and Roger Cardinal.

London : Reaktion Books, 1997.

viii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

The system of collecting / Jean Baudrillard -- "Unless you do these crazy things" : an interview with Robert Opie -- Identity parades / John Windsor -- Collecting and collage-making : the case of Kurt Schwitters / Roger Cardinal -- Telling objects : a narrative perspective in collecting / Mieke Bal -- Licensed curiosity : Cook's Pacific voyages / Nicholas Thomas -- From treasury to museum : the collections of the Austrian Habsburgs / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann -- A collector's model of desire : the house and museum of Sir John Soane / John Elsner -- Cabinets of transgression : Renaissance collections and the incorporation of the new world / Anthony Alan Shelton -- Death and life, in that order, in the works of Charles Willson Peale / Susan Stewart -- "Mille e tre" : Freud and collecting / John Forrester -- Collecting Paris / Naomi Schor.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-304) and index.