To the Collector Belong the Spoils : : Modernism and the Art of Appropriation /

To the Collector Belong the Spoils : : Modernism and the Art of Appropriation / / Annie Pfeifer.

To the Collector Belong the Spoils rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice which flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a constellation of three author-collectors—Henry James, Walter Benjamin, and Carl Einstein—Annie Pfeifer e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Pfeifer, Annie,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (366 p.) :; 26 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Dangerous Passions
  • Part One: Possessing the Old World
  • 1. James’s Human Bibelots
  • 2. Sardanapalus’s Hoard
  • Part Two: Between Salvation and Revolution
  • 3. The Collector in a Collectivist State
  • 4. Trash-Talking in The Arcades Project
  • Part Three: Collecting Africa
  • Introduction
  • 5. The Collector and His Circle
  • 6. Einstein’s “Critical Dictionary”
  • Epilogue: Hoarding in a Digital Age
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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