Magnificent Obsessions: Twenty Remarkable Collectors in Pursuit of Their Dreams - Softcover

Tuchman, Mitch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811803600 ISBN 13: 9780811803601

Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc, 1994

Synopsis

Everybody accumulates things, but the 20 collectors whose achievements are showcased in Magnificent Obsessions have amassed extraordinary arrays of objects ranging from the whimsical to the conceptual, the classic to the capricious. Rich color photographs reveal the sprawling scope and fascinating detail of each magnificent collection.

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From Kirkus Reviews:

Meet Norma Hazelton, connoisseur and collector of swizzle sticks. If you're not impressed by a plastic Jackie Gleason long since separated from its maraschino cherry, take a look at Robert Cade, inventor of Gatorade and a collector of Studebakers (re the carmaker's Dictator line of the 1930s, he says: ``Dictator was a good name until Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin. They dropped the Dictator line in 1937 because of them''). Among the 20 collections that Tuchman and photographer Brenner cast their eyes on are caches of Civil War memorabilia (a banjo, a musket, a toothbrush); aquarium furniture (a lot of mermaids); and representations of the Last Supper (a clock, a saltshaker, a funeral-home fan). Tuchman's text, mostly a pastiche of comments from the collectors themselves, is informative--and just glib enough to keep the whole book from feeling like a spooky visit to your mad Aunt Mabel's attic. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0811803600
• ISBN 13: 9780811803601
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144