Cabinets of curiosities / Patrick Mauriès.

Main entry:

Mauriès, Patrick, 1952-

Title & Author:

Cabinets of curiosities / Patrick Mauriès.

Publication:

New York : Thames & Hudson, 2002.
©2002

Description:

256 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
Simultaneously published in French.
Includes bibliographical references (page 253) and index.
Ch. I. The Theatre of the World -- Ch. II. Opening the Cabinets -- Ch. III. The Collector: 'senex puerilis' -- Ch. IV. The Phantom Cabinet: 18th-19th Centuries -- Ch. V. Resurgences: the Spirit of Curiosity.

Summary:

"In this erudite survey Patrick Mauries traces the amazing history of these 'rooms of wonders'. Not many survive, though there are pictorial records. But their contents still exist and are among the treasures of museums all over the world." "Once the concern only of scholars and art-historians, the cabinet of curiosities has, since the Surrealists, undergone an astonishing revival as an object of aesthetic pleasure, as well as emerging as a source of inspiration for interior decorators and contemporary artists." "This is one of those rare books that rescues a visually exciting but apparently abstruse subject from the distant past and shows its considerable resonant power to interest, excite and move us today."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0500510911
9780500510919

Subject:

Collectors and collecting History.
Collectors and collecting Europe History.
Cabinets of curiosities Europe History.
Museums Europe History.
Renaissance.
Collections Histoire.
Collections Europe Histoire.
Cabinets d'amateurs Europe Histoire.
Musées Europe Histoire.
Cabinets of curiosities
Civilization
Collectors and collecting
Museums
Curiosa.
Kunstvoorwerpen.
Verzamelingen.
Coleções.
Art Collectors and collecting Europe.
Natural history Collectors and collecting Europe.
Curiosities and wonders Europe.
Europe Civilization 18th century.
Europe Civilization 19th century.
Europe Civilisation 18e siècle.
Europe Civilisation 19e siècle.
Europe

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224994
Call No.: AG243 .M3 2002
Status: Available

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