The Redemption of Things: Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism

by Samuel Frederick

Book Overview

Collecting is usually understood as an activity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral objects. In The Redemption of Things, Samuel Frederick emphasizes that to collect things, however, always entails displacing, immobilizing, and potentially disfiguring them, too. He argues that the dispersal of objects, seemingly antithetical to the collector's task, is essential to the logic of gathering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501761560
• ISBN13: 9781501761560
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"