A Noble Madness
James Delbourgo
Collectors are often praised for their taste in art or contributions to science, but there can be a darker side - their passion is sometimes driven by dangerous obsession. Roman emperors who lusted after statues; Chinese scholars obsessed with rocks and flowers; fin de siècle dandies surrounded by bibelots. History is full of stories about those who love things more than people, presenting a danger either to themselves or others. In this sweeping history from antiquity to today, James Delbourgo tells the extraordinary story of the mad collector as a cultural figure from the tyrant and idolater to the sexually repressed 'psycho' of the Freudian imagination and the modern-day hoarder.
A Noble Madness
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