Collecting bibliography

                                    Collecting Bibliography

Abrahamson, Eric and David H. Freedman. Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder—How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-fly Planning Make the World a Better Place. New York: Back Bay Books, 2007.

An American Sampler: Folk Art from the Shelburne Museum. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1987.

Appadurai, Arjun, ed.  The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Banash, David. Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013.

Barker, Stephen, ed. Excavations and Their Objects: Freud’s Collection of Antiquity. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Basbanes, Nicholas A.  A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995.

Baudrillard, Jean. The System of Objects. James Benedict, trans. London: Verso, 1996. 

Belk, Russell W. Collecting in a Consumer Society. London: Routledge, 2001.

Belk, Russell W. and Melanie Wallendorf. “Of Mice and Men: Gender Identity in Collecting.” In The Material Culture of Gender/The Gender of Material Culture, eds. Katherine Martinez and Kenneth L. Ames. Winterthur, Delaware: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1997, 7-26..

Beneš, Barton Lidice. Curiosa: Celebrity Relics, Historical Fossils, & Other Metamorphic Rubbish.  New York: Hary N. Abrams, 2002.

Benjamin, Walter. “Unpacking My Library: A Talk About Book Collecting.” Illuminations. Harry Zohn, trans. New York: Schocken Books, 1969.

-----. The Arcades Project. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin, trans. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Bermant, David W. The Audacious Art Collector. Santa Barbara: Sea Hill Press, 2012. 

Blom, Philipp. To Have and to Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting. Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2003.

Botha, Ted. Mongo: Adventures in Trash. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004.

Braddock, Jeremy. Collecting as Modernist Practice. 
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2012.

Brecher, Kenneth S. Too Sad to Sing: A Memoir with Postcards. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988.

Brewer, Reginald. The Delightful Diversion: The Whys and Wherefores of Book Collecting. New York: Macmillan, 1935.

Brodesser-Akner, Taffy. “Stuff of Nightmares.” New York Times Magazine (July 10, 2016), 28-33, 51.

Brown, Bill, ed. Things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Buchanan-Smith, Peter. Speck No. 1: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, n.d..

A Cabinet of Curiosities: Selections from the Peter Tiliou Collections. Christie’s auction catalog, Janury 28, 2010.

Calloway, Stephen with Katherine Sorrell. Obsessions: Collectors and Their Passions. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2004.

Camille, Michael and Adrian Rifkin, eds. Other Objects of Desire: Collectors and Collecting Queerly. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Carmichael, Bill. Incredible Collectors, Weird Antiques, and Odd Hobbies. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971.

Chatwin, Bruce. Utz. New York: Viking, 1989.

Chocano, Carina. “‘Underneath Every Hoarder Is a Normal Person Waiting to Be Dug Out.’” New York Times Magazine, June 19, 2011, 52-53.  

Clifford, C. R. The Junk Snupper: The Adventures of an Antique Collector. New York: Macmillan, 1927.

Clifford, James. “On Collecting Art and Culture,” in The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Culture, and Art.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988, 215-251.

Colwell, Chip. So Much Stuff: How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Congdon, Lisa. A Collection a Day: Small Treasures and Curious Things. Uppercase, 2011.

Cook, Preston. “You Can’t Have Too Many Eagles.” Ephemera News, 27:3 (Spring 2009), 10-18.

Davenne, Christine. Cabinets of Wonder. New York: Abrams, 2012.

Dexter, George B. The Lure of Amateur Collecting. Boston: Little, Brown, 1923.

Doering, Henry, ed. Book of Buffs, Masters, Mavens and Uncommon Experts. New York: World Almanac Publications, 1980.

Elsner, John and Roger Cardinal, eds. The Cultures of Collecting. London: Reaktion Books, 1994.

Falkoff, Rebecca. Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021.

Feinstein, Sascha. Wreckage: My Father’s Legacy of Art & Junk. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2017.

Ferrell, Jeff. Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

Fischer, Tibor. The Collector Collector.  New York: Metropolitan Books, 

Fisher, Mark. Public Collectors. New York: Inventory Press, n.d.

Frost, Randy O. and Gail Steketee. Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Gardner, Teall. The Pleasure of Collecting. Boston: Century, 1920.

Garfield, Simon. The Error World: An Affair with Stamps. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

Garner, Madelyn and Andrea L. Watson, eds. Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined. Taos, NM: 3: A Taos Press, 2011.

Gelber, Steven M. Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America. 

Getty, J. Paul. The Joys of Collecting: How One Man’s Quest for Art Led to the Founding of a World-class Museum. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.

Gioni, Massimiliano and Natalie Bell. The Keeper. New York: New Museum, 2016.

Glenn, Joshua and Carol Hayes. Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007.

Gurganus, Allan. “When the Saint Came Marching In,” New York Times, October 17, 2003, D1, D6.

Haegele, Katie. White Elephants: On Yard Sales, Relationships, and Finding What Was Missing. Lansing, KS: Microcosm Publishing, 2012. 

Hammond, Jeffrey. Little Big World: Collecting Louis Marx and the American Fifties. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010.

Harford, Tim. Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives. New York: Riverhead Books, 2016.

Hazlitt, William Carew. The Confessions of a Collector. London: Ward & Downey, 1897.

Helfand, Jessica. Scrapbooks: An American History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Herring, Scott. The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Howard, Jennifer. Clutter: An Untidy History. Cleveland, OH: Belt Publishing, 2020.

Hume, Ivor Noel. All the Best Rubbish. 

Impey, Oliver and Arthur MacGregor, eds. The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.

Johnston, Susanna and Tim Beddow. Collecting: The Passionate Pastime. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.

Jullian, Phillippe. The Collectors. Rutland, VT:

Karch, Fritz and Rebecca Robertson. Collected: Living with the Things You Love. New York: Abrams, 2014. E. Tuttle, 1967.

Karp, Marilyn Gelfman. In Flagrante Collecto (Caught in the Act of Collecting).  New York: Abrams, 2006.

King, William Davies. Collections of Nothing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Koppelman, Susan and Alison Franks. Collecting and the Internet: Essays on the Pursuit of Old Passions Through New Technologies. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2008.

Kupsh, Tom. Never Enough: The Creative Life of Alex Jordan. Chicago: Windy City Publishers, 2014.

Lacey, Darlene. Classic Candy. Oxford, UK: Shire Publications, 2013.

Le-Tan, Pierre. A Few Collectors. Translated by Michael Z. Wise. N.p.: New Vessel Press, 2022.

Lewis, Wilmarth S. Collector’s Progress. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Lidz, Franz. The Strange But True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York’s Greatest Hoarders. New York: Bloomsbury, 2003.

Listri, Massimo. Cabinet of Curiosities. Köln: Taschen, 2022.

Martin, Paul. Popular Collecting and the Everyday Self: The Reinvention of the Museum. London: Leicester University Press.

Mauriés, Patrick. Cabinets of Curiosities. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002.

Mebane, John. The Coming Collecting Boom. South Brunswick, NJ: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1968.

Miller, Daniel. The Comfort of Things. Cambridge: Polity, 2008.

-----. Stuff. Cambridge: Polity, 2010.

Minter, Adam. Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.

Moe, Doug. Alex Jordan: Architect of His Own Dream. Spring Green, WI: House of Wyoming Valley, n.d.

Moist, Kevin M. and David Banash, eds. Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013.

Mouillefarine, Laurence and Pascal Hinous. Leurs Collections. Editions E.P.A. Style, 1989. 

Muensterberger, Werner. Collecting: An Unruly Passion, Psychological Perspectives. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1994.

Murphy, Kate. “For Some an Appliance; For Others, Art.” New York Times, October 16, 2013, D4.

Newton, Alfred Edward. This Book Collecting Game. Boston: Little Brown, 1928.

Neziroglu, Fugen, Jerome Bubrick, and José A. Yaryura-Tobias. Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding. Oakland: New Harbinger Publications, 2004.

Nicholson, Geoff. The Sex Collectors: The Secret World of Consumers, Connoisseurs, Curators, Creators, Dealers, Bibliographers, and Accumulators of “Erotica.” New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Pascoe, Judith. The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. 

Paxton, Matt, with Phaedra Hise. The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter.  New York: Perigee, 2011.

Pearce, Susan M. Collecting in Contemporary Practice. SAGE, 1998.

-----.  Museums, Objects, and Collections. Washington: Smithsonian Books, 1993.

-----.  On Collecting: An Investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition. London: Routledge, 1995.

Pomian, Krysztov. Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice, 1500-1800. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990.

Popova, Maria. “’A Collection a Day': Lisa Congdon's Obsessive and Unusual Art Project.” Atlantic (October 22, 2011).

Purcell, Rosamond. Owl’s Head. New York: Quantuck Lane Press, 2003.

Purcell, Rosamond Wolff & Stephen Jay Gould. Finders Keepers: Eight Collectors. London: Hutchinson Radius, 1992.

Radcliffe, Austin. Things Organized Neatly: The Art of Arranging the Everyday. Universe, 2016.

Range, Thomas E. The Book of Postcard Collecting. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1980.

Rheims, Maurice. The Strange Life of Objects: 35 Centuries of Art Collecting and Collectors. New York: Atheneum, 1961.

Rigby, Douglas and Elizabeth Rigby. Lock, Stock, and Barrel: The story of Collecting. New York: Lippincott, 1944.

Robertson, A. F. Life Like Dolls: The Collector Doll Phenomenon and the Lives of the Women Who Love Them. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Rubin, Richard. “A Mass Appeal: What’s the Deal with Collecting?” AARP, March-April 2008.

Rubin, Saul. Offbeat Musuems: The Collections and Curators of America’s Most Unusual Museums. Santa Monica: Santa Monica Press, 1997.

Rufus, Anneli and Kristan Lawson. The Scavenger’s Manifesto: A Guide to Freeing Yourself from the Endless Cycle of Buying More and More New (Though Not Necessarily Improved) Stuff, and Discovering How Salvaging, Swapping, Repurposing, Reusing, and Recycling Can Save the Earth, Your Money, and Your Soul. New York: Penguin, 2009.

Saarinen, Aline B. The Proud Possessors: The Lives, Times and Tastes of Some Adventurous American Art Collectors. New York: Vintage Books, 1968.

Schultz, Arthur Warren. In Praise of America’s Collectors: Their Secrets Reveal How to Be a Successful Collector. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1997. 

Self, Will. “On Collecting.”  Source?

Sexson, Linda. Ordinarily Sacred. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992.

Shapiro, Susan. “Make Room for My Junk Man.” New York Times, September 13, 2009, Style, 6.

Sheehy, Colleen J., ed. Cabinet of Curiosities: Mark Dion and the University as Installation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

Smith, John, ed. Possession Obsession: Andy Warhol and Collecting. Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol Museum, 2002.

Spiller, Harley J. Keep the Change: A Collector’s Tales of Lucky Pennies, Counterfeit C-Notes, and Other Curious Currency. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2015.

Stanton, Maureen. Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America. New York: Penguin Press, 2011.

Stewart, Susan. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.

Stillinger, Elizabeth, et al. The Antiquers.  New York: Knopf, 1980. 

Streitfeld, David. “What People Won’t Buy in a Bid for the Past.” New York Times (April 16, 2023), Business, 1, 6-7. 

Tolin, David F., Randy O. Frost, and Gail Steketee. Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Tuchman, Mitch. Magnificent Obsessions: Twenty Remarkable Collectors in Pursuit of Their Dreams. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994.

Turkle, Sherry, ed. Evocative Objects: Things We Think With. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.

Walker, Rob. “Clutter Is Good for You.” New York Times (January 1, 2023), Opinion.

Walker, William S.  A Living Exhibition: The Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal Museum. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. 

Wendorf, Richard. The Literature of Collecting & Other Essays. Boston: The Boston Atheneum and Oak Knoll Press, 2008.

Weschler, Lawrence. Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.

Williamson, George C. Everybody’s Book on Collecting. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1924.

Wynd, Viktor. Viktor Wynd’s Cabinet of Wonders. Munich: Prestel, 2014.

Yourgrau, Barry. Mess: One Man’s Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

Andrew Dillon, Collecting as Routine Human Behavior.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/26855128

Lawrence Zuckerman Why Hunt and Gather A Trove of Stuff?; Studying the Ageless Need To Amass Collections. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/22/arts/why-hunt-gather-trove-stuff-studying-ageless-need-amass-collections.html

Collecting and Provenance

A Multidisciplinary Approach

Edited by Jane Milosch and Nick Pearce.  https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538127582/Collecting-and-Provenance-A-Multidisciplinary-Approach