To Have And To Hold by Philipp Blom
A lively cultural history tracing the practice of collecting from Renaissance curiosity cabinets to modern museums and private hoards, showing how the impulse to gather and display objects has shaped knowledge, taste, power and identity; the book examines collectors’ motivations—personal grief, status, scientific curiosity, imperial acquisition—and follows how collections moved from intimate, chaotic assemblages into institutions that organized the world for public consumption, while interrogating the ethical, economic and political consequences of appropriation, commodification and the desire to possess.
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