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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Book collecting"”.
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By the Book: Book Collecting, Scrapbooking, and the Making of Modernism, 1880--1950
I conclude by arguing that while book collecting-influenced modernist poetry and criticism were dominant for the first half of the twentieth century, scrapbook-influenced modernism helped pave the way for a postmodernism characterized by chance, openness and pastiche. I further claim that the …
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The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the College of Sociology: Avant-Garde Collectives in Contact
<p>Collections are mysterious things. A book or text can provide an initial model of a collection. Letters, words, sentences, paragraphs collide to form some sense of meaning. Disparate elements, brought in proximity of each other, gain significance through such closeness. These spheres of related …
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Curating a Gentleman's Library: Practices of Acquisition, Display and Disposal in the Cottonian Collection, 1791-1816
This thesis examines the book and archival holdings of the Cottonian Collection – a national designated eighteenth-century collection of fine art and books – between 1791 and 1816, the period of William Cotton II’s custodianship. Prior to this thesis, the Cottonian Collection has not been the …
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Birth of the First: Authenticity and the Collecting of Modern First Editions, 1890-1930
… dubbed a “mania” for modern first editions as book collectors trained their sights on authors who were contemporaries and, in some cases, still living. Prices for modern authors reached unmatched heights in the collectors’ market, and both bibliophilic publications and general interest …
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Curating the collector: exploring representations of early modern German women book collectors (1650-1780)
This dissertation examines representations of book collecting by German women in the early modern period in order to explore the role of gender in this activity. Portrayals of book collectors in the modern and early modern eras offer examples of how this identity is constructed, particularly in the …