“George Salting found his vocation as a professional collector of art, inspired by the beautiful objects he had studied in Rome.”
“You are continually harassed by a debt collector who calls you at all hours of the day and night. You wrote a letter requesting the debt collector to stop contacting you, but your letter was ignored.”
“As a collector his interests include European silver, gold snuffboxes, enameled portrait miniatures, and Italian mosaics.”
A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
“We cannot insist on a mission for him and the collectorship for a barnburner.”
“Royall, who had written FDR previously for employment and who now had the endorsement of the Harlem Political Union for the collectorship.”
“There are a number of artists who historically reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s, and that kind of mid-20th century art is being rediscovered by a younger collectorship.”
“The beginning of forced collectivisation in the early 1930s was carried through with unprecedented brutality and resulted in unimaginable hardships for the countryside.”
“By the time of the First Five-Year Plan and collectivisation, when the Stalinist bureaucracy was consolidated as a class, there was little social provision for childcare.”
“Mao's government carried out mass executions of landowners, instituted collectivisation and implemented the Laogai camp system.”
“In this way, viewers decide which works to buy only on the basis of taste rather than the artists' fame or their collectability.”
“In addition, each artwork comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, ensuring its collectability.”
“Whitaker believes that, although digital art is in its infancy, it will have a tremendous impact on the publishing arena and the collectability of art.”
“I felt a calmness and collectedness I hadn't experienced in years after my little rendezvous with Tim over coffee and apple pie.”
“In our interview, she was the very picture of collectedness and confidence, but at one point the pressure did get to her.”
“Normally I'm alright with exams, and the guy sitting to my right during last year's history mods proclaimed me to be the essence of calm and collectedness.”
“Liberalism and republicanism gave a political cast, invoking collectivities of bounded, mapped extent, and ruled by popular, no longer divine, consent.”
“She urges academic unionists to move away from place-based approaches to organizing and embrace new ways of creating cyber-communities and worker collectivities.”
“The regions, departments and communes are all known as territorial collectivities, meaning they possess local assemblies as well as an executive.”