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- Title
True collector.
- Authors
Sheumaker, Helen
- Abstract
Narratives about collecting are structured not as descriptive vignettes but as a series of interlocking Bildungsromane in which the collector matures as she pursues the desired objects. These imaginative narratives make no acknowledgment of contemporary social and economic realities and neither do the narratives address issues of systemic inequalities. Instead, collectors such as the American writer Alice Van Leer Carrick (1875-1961) supported the Colonial Revival aesthetic, which embodied ideals of patriotic virtue in contrast to the supposed decline in morality and in the conduct of life in her era. At the same time, Carrick’s enthusiasm for discovered, uncovered and otherwise neglected objects suggests a conception of the self as one of never-ending renewal.
- Subjects
UNITED States; VAN Leer Carrick, Alice; AMERICAN arts; WOMEN collectors; ANTIQUES; PRESERVATION of antiques; 20TH century collectors &; collecting; AMERICAN women authors; ANTIQUES in interior decoration; 20TH century American literature; LITERARY criticism; LITERATURE &; history
- Publication
Journal of the History of Collections, 2013, Vol 25, Issue 1, p119
- ISSN
0954-6650
- Publication type
Article