Cabinets of Curiosities by Patrick Mauriès

Cabinets of Curiosities

Patrick Mauriès

256 pages hardcover 2002

4 editions

nonfiction art history challenging informative slow-paced
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In the ninteenth century, New Yorkers flocked to collections of strange and grotesque oddities called cabinets of curiosities. Now, in lower Manhattan, a modern apartment tower is slated to rise on the site of one of the old cabinets. Yet when the...

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