{"product_id":"to-the-collector-belong-the-spoils-modernism-and-the-art-of-appropriation-9781501767791","title":"To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo the Collector Belong the Spoils\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. \u003c\/b\u003eThrough 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePositing a shadow history of modernism rooted in collection, citation, and paraphrase, \u003ci\u003eTo the Collector Belong the Spoils\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annie Pfeifer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501767791","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710624731273,"sku":"9781501767791","price":67.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_d029aae8-1a7d-4561-9257-c355de9e55ab.jpg?v=1719540042","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/to-the-collector-belong-the-spoils-modernism-and-the-art-of-appropriation-9781501767791","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}