Collections - Collectionneurs
by Emmanuel Pierrat (in French - the English version will be published in principal by the end of 2020)
Historically and in all latitudes, human beings collect. Here are revealed collections that are generally not open to the public, or are discreet or simply unrecognized. They lead us to the heart of the world of contemporary art, skulls, opium pipes, masterpieces of tribal or "outsider" art, stuffed animals, 18th century statues, pop art, thirty glorious women or Christian reliquaries. If the collections are described here through the history of their constitution and embellished with often tasty anecdotes, the book also addresses some essential themes related to "collectionitis": the space necessary to collect, how to manage your married life invaded by the objects, the money spent or invested in the collection, the most secret motivations, with what purchase did it all start, etc. ...
