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This title argues that society's priorities, its notions of value, are still informed by our relationship with physical objects, even though we have entered an age characterized by technological abstraction. The book examines how modern life is saturated and defined by things. The authors use a mix of text and photography to describe the way in which two institutions, the department store and the museum, are central to the story of society's access to material things.

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Although the modern public museum - a space to generate and police narratives regarding all objects, images and information - found its ideal form at the end of the nineteenth century, the tangled roots of museological culture reach back much further into history. Read the first page

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Selfridges vs British Musuem, 20 Jan 2003

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This book is easy to read with great photographs. It throws up some interesting ideas about consumerism in western society, drawing parallels between the British Museum and the department store Selfridges.

It's a good looking book and as it has 2 sections of text running simultaneously throughout is physically a really interesting read (you find yourself back at the page you read an hour ago to continue with the other section of text - not as confusing as it may sound!).

I'd say it's a must for anyone studying art, intersted in the way books work, conumerism or museums. It's quite expensive, but well worth the money.

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