Download or read book Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities written by Janelle A. Schwartz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study asks its readers to enter into an investigation of the nature of collecting as an aesthetic exercise. Spanning the 16th-century through today, it gathers together the work of current scholars to re-envision the task of collectors and their collections in broad strokes.