Words, Books, and the Spaces They Inhabit - The Noble Art of Collecting, Book One

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Words, Books, and the Spaces They Inhabit - The Noble Art of Collecting, Book One
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mari Shaw
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:100
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 140
Category/GenreAcquisitions and collection development
ISBN/Barcode 9783956793462
ClassificationsDewey:700.75
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Sternberg Press
Imprint Sternberg Press
Publication Date 8 September 2017
Publication Country United States

Description

A meditation on the ways the library and the book has shaped life and history.Words, Books, and the Spaces They Inhabit is the first of Mari Shaw's series The Noble Art of Collecting. With examples of unexpected collectors and serendipitous outcomes, Shaw investigates the obscure desires that shape art collecting and the public goodwill that results from it. What was lost when the scrolls in the ancient library of Alexandria were destroyed? How did Catherine the Great's collecting change the way we think? How do Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com expand our appreciation of books as objects? Though the ways we communicate live and vary, history has been created, recorded, and preserved in writing. Words and the spaces that contain them are crucial to an empathetic understanding of our world.

Author Biography

Mari Shaw is an intellectual property lawyer, storyteller, and author of Painter and Pataphysician Thomas Chimes (2015). She has organized projects with artists such as Candida H fer and Anri Sala; has taught a seminar on originality, art, law, and technology at the University of Pennsylvania; and lectures at a number of universities and art schools. Shaw has served on boards and advisory committees for documenta 12, The Galleries of the Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin Law School, and the Wilma Theater. She and her husband, Peter, live in Philadelphia and Berlin and have been collecting art for thirty-five years.