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Title: On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart ISBN: 0822313669 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: May, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5

Rating: 5
Summary: amazingly insightful and infinitely engaging
Comment: This wonderful work has been indispensible in my research into collections and souvenirs. Stewart's ability to look at the long history of visual culture and bring in such disparate elements as Pop art and miniature manuscripts makes for a thoughtful and reasoned argument. Particularly notable is her need to cross barriers of medium, writing on everything from children's stories to painting to Tom Thumb weddings. An engaging read that rarely falls victim to theoretical rhetoric. The world needs more writers like Stewart who take their time, slowly unfolding their argument, surveying all aspects of culture, giving high and low culture equal weight.

Rating: 5
Summary: great written work
Comment: I might add to the previous review, that this book is also of great interest for those that are interested in the study of objects and collections. Objects in this text are analysed in the miniature and the gigantic revealing their symbolic meanings and values. the analysis on the collection and the souvenir are also fantastic. Being a poet Stewart's book is a pleasure to read.

Rating: 5
Summary: a great book for artists
Comment: On Longing is sensitively written and a must read for anyone interested in art or literature especially artists and writers. I would recommend Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millenium to anyone who enjoyed On Longing.

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