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... Track four begins with a shellac collector’s convention, situating collecting in the context of a particular subcultural activity, imagining a range of possibilities from solitary collecting to being “the focal point of social interaction.” Returning to a memoir-like mode, the author reflects...

... record collector crate-digger vinyl records ...

... record collector crate-digger vinyl records ...

... Track four begins with a shellac collector’s convention, situating collecting in the context of a particular subcultural activity, imagining a range of possibilities from solitary collecting to being “the focal point of social interaction.” Returning to a memoir-like mode, the author reflects...

... In the mid-1990s, staff at Museums Victoria planned the new Melbourne Museum. At the heart of the permanent Indigenous exhibition was a life-size model of Baldwin Spencer, coauthor of the classic anthropological monograph The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899) and collector of thousands...

... Domenico di Piero (1406–97) was a jeweler, an antiquarian, and a collector active in Venice during most of the fifteenth century. By the end of his life, he had amassed a huge fortune consisting of a collection of precious objects, cash, and real estate holdings. Chapter 19 establishes...

..., the Giudecca, and Murano. Chapter 13 tracks the stylistic development of the wellhead over time until the construction of an aqueduct in the nineteenth century. The wellhead was then transformed from a utilitarian necessity into a collector’s item, with the finest examples dispersed to museums, parks...

... , the Watts Summer Festival, Alonzo Davis and Dale Brockman Davis’s Brockman Gallery, etc.). It also explores how cultural workers such as Cecil Fergerson and Samella Lewis sought to integrate existing American establishments (i.e., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art). The role of art collectors...

.... Rather than defanging the potency of these objects, such practices generated new collectives (and actual collectors) around their purported “magical powers,” adding immeasurably to their aesthetic and monetary value. The “magic” of such things now moves across worlds, most recently in the designation...

... This chapter examines the governmental deployments of ethnology both “at home and away” in France as represented by the interwar fieldwork and exhibition practices of the Musée de l’Homme. Focused on the practices of collecting, collectors, and the epistemic circulation of objects...

.... In the process of transforming a technical problem of fossil osteology into a new research strategy, Cuvier mobilized three different epistemological cultures: a museum culture, developed by collectors, curators, and taxonomers; late Newtonianism, which the Parisian physicists of his time promoted...

... distinctiveness combined with its limited-edition exclusivity have fueled a collector's market to rival that of vinyl, even as doubters question whether the format has any practical place in a mediascape of readily accessible digital music. cassettes formats revival analog ...

... development of the wellhead over time until the construction of an aqueduct in the nineteenth century. The wellhead was then transformed from a utilitarian necessity into a collector’s item, with the finest examples dispersed to museums, parks, and private estates throughout the world. wellhead vera...

... finds collectors whose efforts to capture history, before it disappears, are doomed to evanescence. In Time to Come, details of city life accumulate, and time capsules are unearthed and prepared. Singapore Gaga plays with the dialectics not just of sight and sound, but also with order and disorder...