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To the Collector Belong the Spoils - Modernism and the Art of Appropriation (Hardcover)
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To the Collector Belong the Spoils - Modernism and the Art of Appropriation (Hardcover)
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To the Collector Belong the Spoils rethinks collecting as an
artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice which
flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a
constellation of three author-collectors-Henry James, Walter
Benjamin, and Carl Einstein-Annie Pfeifer examines the relationship
between literary modernism and twentieth-century practices of
collecting objects. From James's paper hoarding to Einstein's mania
for African art and Benjamin's obsession with old Russian toys, she
shows how these authors' literary techniques of compiling,
gleaning, and reassembling constitute a modernist style of
collecting which that reimagines the relationship between author
and text, source and medium. Placing Benjamin and Einstein in
surprising conversation with James sharpens the contours of
collecting as aesthetic and political praxis underpinned by
dangerous passions. An apt figure for modernity, the collector is
caught between preservation and transformation, order and chaos,
the past and the future. Positing a shadow history of modernism
rooted in collection, citation, and paraphrase, To the Collector
Belong the Spoils traces the movement's artistic innovation to its
preoccupation with appropriating and rewriting the past. By
despoiling and decontextualizing the work of others, these three
authors engaged in a form of creative plunder that evokes
collecting's long history in the spoils of war and conquest. As
Pfeifer demonstrates, more than an archive or taxonomy, modernist
collecting practices became a radical, creative endeavor-the artist
as collector, the collector as artist.
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