Suchergebnisse

18: War-raised Units19: The Brigade of Gurkhas; 20: Options for Change; A: Order of precedence; B: The Formation of Territorial Regiments; C: The 1971 Infantry line-up; D: All-brass issue badges; E: Plastic cap badges; F: Mounting and displaying badges; G: Translation of Foreign-Language Mottoes; H: Plumes and Hackles; I: Volunteer Battalions; J: Tartan backings; K: Order of precedence; The Plates; Regimental Index.

This groundbreaking book examines the relationship between the development of the consumer society and the rise of collecting by individuals and institutions. Rusell Belk considers how and why people collect, as individuals, corporations and museums, and the impact this collecting has on us and our culture.Collecting in a Consumer Society outlines the history of museum collecting from ancient civilizations to the present. It also looks at aspects of consumer culture - advertizing, department stores, mass merchandizing, consumer desires, and how this relates to the activity of collecting.Collec

To collect is to assign value to objects of function, mementos, ideas, etc. The value we project and engage with reflects our private and public selves in a grounding relationship with a material reality. The collection of certain texts, concepts, and artists have strengthened my relationship with a political self, self as artist, and writer as learner--while maintaining the autonomy of the material to speak for itself by offering it to the reader in its full form (PDF archive of mentioned material). This project is an attempt at merging academic writing with autobiographical elements of developing maturity in hopes to bridge a gap between academia and the beginner. With this book as an interactive object, I want academic and intimate material to find a new place in adult lifestyles. To collect is to re-materialize knowledge, to collect is a reason to share.