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Click above for more information about the book. Both kids and adults, collectors and others, will find something to enjoy here.
Heinrich Boll, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.
A clown -- maybe he collects moments like Heinrich Boll's clown.
About collecting, collections, and collectors.
Click above for more information about the book. Both kids and adults, collectors and others, will find something to enjoy here.
The Quintessential Collector
My name is Valerie Biebuyck and the inspiration for this blog is Electra to the Rescue, a book I've written about a quintessential collector: Electra Havemeyer Webb. She collected folk art for the most part, although she collected other things as well, throughout most of the twentieth century, beginning at a time when "serious" collectors viewed it as little more than trash. When she ran out of space at her house, she moved some of her folk sculptures (just one of many types of folk art she acquired) to an indoor tennis court! She had so much stuff (she collected more than 120,000 objects during her lifetime) that she actually started a museum. When she ran out of space at the museum, she started collecting buildings and bringing them to the museum grounds to house her treasures. She didn't limit herself to folk art and lovely old houses, though. She also collected a lighthouse, a covered bridge, a one-room jail, a railroad station, and a 900-ton steamboat. All of this is at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, a place that Electra called "a collection of collections," and where Electra has satisfied her dream of sharing the acquisitions of a lifetime with others.
What Electra Created and What It's Grown Into
The Thrill of Having
Electra's collecting began with dolls that her grandmother gave her when she was ten years old. "I never played with those dolls," she later said. "I was afraid they might be broken. I just wanted to have those dolls and as many more dolls as I could."
A Collection of Moments
You can collect things that most of us think of as collectible, such as stamps, coins, dolls. You can collect expensive things, like art by famous artists who work in a particular style, or priceless historical artifacts, or sports cars.
But you can also collect things that are not tangible. Like Nobel Laureate Heinrich Boll's character in "The Clown," who was a "collector of moments." My father-in-law speaks often of the influence that concept has had on his life -- to collect moments, such as the surprise celebration planned by his children to celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary, and another such surprise a few years later in honor of his 80th birthday. He also collects smaller, quieter moments, as well, such as a pleasant afternoon planting cedar trees and talking with my husband.
Many people think of these things as memories, but my father-in-law prefers to view them as a collection of moments.
What are moments you have collected?
But you can also collect things that are not tangible. Like Nobel Laureate Heinrich Boll's character in "The Clown," who was a "collector of moments." My father-in-law speaks often of the influence that concept has had on his life -- to collect moments, such as the surprise celebration planned by his children to celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary, and another such surprise a few years later in honor of his 80th birthday. He also collects smaller, quieter moments, as well, such as a pleasant afternoon planting cedar trees and talking with my husband.
Many people think of these things as memories, but my father-in-law prefers to view them as a collection of moments.
What are moments you have collected?
Heinrich Boll, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.
A clown -- maybe he collects moments like Heinrich Boll's clown.
2 comments:
Hi my name is chase.I have a collection of my own.My collections are marbles.
I love the marvlis picters in the book.Me and my mom clat cool rooks.And I will stat clat sand to becos I LOVE clating anething.fondly Riley
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