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The art of collecting.(art collecting)
When asked to say something about "collecting," the first thought that enters my mind is a negative one: it is not "accumulating" And a second negative: it is not "investing" What then, stated positively, is collecting? It is acquiring objects that have some relation to each other and putting those objects into the kind of order that reflects the collector's response to them. Each true collection achieves a personality beyond and apart from the sum of the objects. This personality is definable and has a value in itself. It is lost if the collection is dispersed or mutilated. (1)
All the above is true, I believe, of collections of baseball cards, beetles and ...
- The investment on the wall. (corporate art collecting)(includes related article)
- Financial Executive Shane, Corinne January 1, 1996 700+ words
...climate has cooled off corporate art collecting, rumors of its death may be highly...no. The climate for corporate art collecting hasn't bottomed out; it's...healthy harbinger for corporate art collecting. However, it's hard to get...
- Book of the year: an astonishingly ambitious survey of post-war art collecting...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Hall, Michael December 1, 2007 700+ words
Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting since 1945 JAMES STOURTON SCALA, 45 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781857595147 James Stourton's survey of art collecting since World War II is itself a carefully conceived and...
- Investing artistically: a novice guide to art collecting in Mexico...
- Magazine article from: Business Mexico Gleason, Megan Mackenzie October 1, 2005 700+ words
"COLLECTING ART is something beautiful in life...City's vibrant art world. RESEARCH Art collecting is equal parts visual taste and carefully...collection. "There is a concept called collecting wide or deep. Width in collecting is...
- Auction House Aims to Popularize Art Collecting.
- Newspaper article from: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea) September 29, 1999 700+ words
...the Gana Art Center, says that collecting art or rare items in a time like...force. Ten specialists in the collecting fields, five in Oriental art...change the general perception on art collecting from something for a select few...
- Art is to be enjoyed, not kept in boxes under the bed! Andy Balman, co-director...
- Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England) September 14, 2009 700+ words
...there will be a wide range of work and styles on show. So, preparation is strongly advised. When it comes to art-collecting motivation, millionaire art collector Charles Saatchi thinks: "Primarily, buy art to show it off". Meanwhile...
- Corporate Art Collecting Sinks Within Hard Times
- Newspaper article from: The Journal Record Deborah Gimelson October 13, 1994 700+ words
...passive-aggressive." In the 1980s, collecting art was the thing to do if a company wanted...that increasingly accompanied corporate collecting. No statistics track corporate collecting of fine art, but the Business Committee...
- Trophies of Grace? The "art" collecting activities of United Brethren in Christ...
- Magazine article from: African Arts Hart, William June 22, 2006 700+ words
The collecting activities of a group of American missionaries...2) Admittedly our knowledge of the collecting activities of UBC missionaries in Sierra...collections. Elsewhere in Africa the sporadic collecting activity of Christian missionaries has...
- Trading art: Catherine Whistler welcomes a history of Venetian art collecting...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Whistler, Catherine February 1, 2009 700+ words
...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The history of collecting, including the history of patronage...first of a series of three volumes on collecting and dealing in Venice from the 16th...course new (for instance, the avid collecting of Venetian art by English patrons in...