The collector: fetishes, pillages and vitrines

Abstract

The collecter's ethics, of subtracting for summing up and to expose his collection's objects as original fetishes in such a time of serial reproduction is an analysis aspect of "Os Arquivos Implacáveis" (The Implacable Archives), section published by José Condé in the supplement "Letras & Artes" (In A Manhã, Rio, 1946-53). The objects collection relatives to the intellectuals allows, at the same time, to an assumed subliterate the prestige wich is necessary for taking part in the ambience, and shows us the meanders of the market turning itself the display window of this same ambience.