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Poring over this beautifully photographed guide is as much fun as exploring flea markets, second hand shops and antique stores with someone who is knowledgeable about the most popular collectibles you are likely to find there.
Book Synopsis The Curious Collector by : Jessie Walker
Download or read book The Curious Collector written by Jessie Walker and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poring over this beautifully photographed guide is as much fun as exploring flea markets, second hand shops and antique stores with someone who is knowledgeable about the most popular collectibles you are likely to find there.
Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities: An Interdisciplinary Study asks its readers to enter into an investigation of the nature of collecting as an aesthetic exercise. Spanning the sixteenth century through today, this book gathers together the work of current scholars to re-envision the task of collectors and their collections in broad strokes. Each chapter appropriates the idea of a cabinet of curiosity in order to expand its boundaries of meaning and to complicate our understanding of the acts of display and observation. These chapters also demonstrate that collecting is a universal trope which nevertheless depends on time and place for its particular expressions. Whether the collection is made up of literary texts and criticism, visual art, including mechanical reproductions, taxidermy and photography, historical travelogues, museum exhibitions, blockbuster films, or airline in-flight briefing cards, it conveys an urgent relevance to our consumer age, in which information is abundant and attention is a commodity.
Book Synopsis Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities by : Janelle A. Schwartz
Download or read book Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities written by Janelle A. Schwartz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities: An Interdisciplinary Study asks its readers to enter into an investigation of the nature of collecting as an aesthetic exercise. Spanning the sixteenth century through today, this book gathers together the work of current scholars to re-envision the task of collectors and their collections in broad strokes. Each chapter appropriates the idea of a cabinet of curiosity in order to expand its boundaries of meaning and to complicate our understanding of the acts of display and observation. These chapters also demonstrate that collecting is a universal trope which nevertheless depends on time and place for its particular expressions. Whether the collection is made up of literary texts and criticism, visual art, including mechanical reproductions, taxidermy and photography, historical travelogues, museum exhibitions, blockbuster films, or airline in-flight briefing cards, it conveys an urgent relevance to our consumer age, in which information is abundant and attention is a commodity.
Book Synopsis American Police Collectibles by : Matthew G. Forte
Download or read book American Police Collectibles written by Matthew G. Forte and published by Turn of the Century Publish. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Harley J. Spiller began collecting money at the age of five when, home sick from school, his father tossed him a sack of pennies and a Whitman coin folder. In the five decades since, author Spiller has amassed one of America's most extensive collections of unusual financial artifacts as well as a wealth of anecdotes and quirky historical details about U.S. currency. In Keep the Change, Spiller takes an irreverent look at our most uncommon coins and bills. Readers learn why greenbacks are green; what happens to worn-out bills (compost is involved); how artists navigate the fine line between art and mutilation; whether it's ever acceptable to burn money (short answer: maybe); and how coin clippers and counterfeiters through the ages have profited by manipulating money. This highly selective tour through currency legends and lore will inspire readers to look with a new sense of wonder at the bills that pass through our hands every day.
Book Synopsis Keep the Change by : Harley J. Spiller
Download or read book Keep the Change written by Harley J. Spiller and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harley J. Spiller began collecting money at the age of five when, home sick from school, his father tossed him a sack of pennies and a Whitman coin folder. In the five decades since, author Spiller has amassed one of America's most extensive collections of unusual financial artifacts as well as a wealth of anecdotes and quirky historical details about U.S. currency. In Keep the Change, Spiller takes an irreverent look at our most uncommon coins and bills. Readers learn why greenbacks are green; what happens to worn-out bills (compost is involved); how artists navigate the fine line between art and mutilation; whether it's ever acceptable to burn money (short answer: maybe); and how coin clippers and counterfeiters through the ages have profited by manipulating money. This highly selective tour through currency legends and lore will inspire readers to look with a new sense of wonder at the bills that pass through our hands every day.
Book Synopsis A Memorial Discourse by : Henry Highland Garnet
Download or read book A Memorial Discourse written by Henry Highland Garnet and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Monthly Review by : Ralph Griffiths
Download or read book The Monthly Review written by Ralph Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
Book Synopsis Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal by : Ralph Griffiths
Download or read book Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal written by Ralph Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
Download or read book Works written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The works of Isaac Disraeli (ed. by B. Disraeli). by : Isaac Disraeli
Download or read book The works of Isaac Disraeli (ed. by B. Disraeli). written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Curiosities of Literature by : Isaac Disraeli
Download or read book Curiosities of Literature written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
