Telling objects : a narrative perspective on collecting

Author

Bal, Mieke

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Cultures of collecting

Author (monograph)

Elsner, John (Editor, Collective Author); Cardinal, Roger (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Cultures of collecting. 1994, 97-115

Publisher

Reaktion, London (gbr)

Publication country

United Kingdom

Abstract (en)

Discusses and interprets the meaning and motivation of collecting in narrative terms, understanding narrative to be an account in any semiotic system in which a subjectively focalised sequence of events is presented and communicated.

Subject (en)

• General works -- Patronage and collecting
• Semiotics
• Collectors
• Objects

Subject (fr)

• Généralités -- Mécénat et collections
• Sémiotique
• Collectionneurs
• Objet

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19941001-00348939

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