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In Flagrante Collecto

Categorie	Algemeen Antiek & Curiosa
Boeknummer	#381751
Titel	In Flagrante Collecto: Caught in the Act of Collecting
Auteur	Karp, Marilynn Gelfman
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York, NY : Harry N. Abrams
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0810955407
ISBN13	9780810955400
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original white boards, dust jacket, decorated endpapers, numerous illustrations (including photographs) in colour, large 4to.
Samenvatting	What do you do with your soap bars when they become too small to use? If you've ever lost a cuff link, what did you do with the one that remained? In "In Flagrante Collecto", Marilynn Gelfman Karp explores and catalogues our impulse to collect the incidental miscellanea of the past. In her words "There are collectors of things with intrinsic value - gold or diamonds or baseball cards. Then there are a group of people who love the unloved. These are the purest kind." For these collectors, the hunter-gatherers of misshapen pretzels, do not disturb signs, and marbles, there is deep and satisfying value in collecting the arcane objects that most people overlook or forget. This book is a tribute to the realm of those "unloveable" objects, those that seem banal, common, corny, in bad taste, too familiar, or just invisible. Part observation, part confession, Karp's text takes us on a joyous journey of philosophical musings, cultural history, and personal memoir.
Pagina's	367
Conditie	Goed — Spine and edges dust jacket slightly discoloured.
Prijs	€ 25,00

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