COLLECTORS, COLLECTING AND NON-COLLECTIBLES. BETWEEN EVERYDAY AESTHETICS AND AESTHETICISM

• Authors: Diaconu Mădălina
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Collecting goes beyond art collecting and seems to meet a more general need. Although it originally aided survival and has predecessors in the animal world, the gesture of collecting has complex motivations. After exploring the collector’s psychology and the behavioural differences between collectors and spectators, this paper analyses the logic of collecting and its principles: order, variation, attractive and meaningful display, the control of contingency, processuality and growth, seriality, and limitation. Finally, the paradoxical attempt to collect non-collectibles, such as gods, clouds or human relations will be shown to illustrate a para-aesthetics of collecting which ranges from the poetics of everyday life to aestheticism.

Keywords

EN

COLLECTING; EVERYDAY AESTHETICS

• Publisher: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia ad Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture
• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 134 – 150

Contributors

author

Diaconu Mădălina

• University of Vienna, Deptement of Philosophy, NIG Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5866498