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Traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to collect, focusing on the normative collections of the Western canon. This title includes essays on the Neoclassical architect Sir John Soane, Sigmund Freud and Kurt Schwitters, one of the masters of collage.

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In their diverse expressions, maps and the representational processes of mapping have constructed the spaces of modernity since the early Renaissance. This title explores what mapping has meant in the past and how its meanings have altered.

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Written on the Body surveys the history of the tattoo in Europe and North America from Antiquity to the present. While the subject of tattooing has previously been approached from the viewpoints of anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, this book sets the practice into a historical perspective.

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Includes essays on design that cover Modernism's fortunes in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Britain, Spain, Belgium and the USA.

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The New Museology is essential reading for all those seeking to understand the current debate in museum ideologies. With essays by Charles Saumarez Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Paul Greenhalgh, Colin Sorensen, Nick Merriman, Stephen Bann, Philip Wright, Norman Palmer and Peter Vergo.

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'What is history' From Thucydides to Toynbee, historians and non-historians alike have wondered how to answer this question. This book focuses on developments over the years in historical writing, not least the renewed interest in the status of narrative itself and the presence of the authorial 'voice'.