Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic, London, England
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Bloomsbury Publishing, London
"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower...
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"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower over us and yet fade into background. Their lifespan outstrips ours, and yet their wisdom remains inscrutable, treasured up in the heartwood. They serve us in many ways--as keel, lodgepole, and execution site--and yet to become human, we had to come down from their limbs. In this book Matthew Battles follows the tree's branches across art, poetry, and landscape, marking the edges of imagination with wildness and shadow."--... "Explores via art and literature our complicated material and economic entanglements with trees and their products"--...
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic, London, England
;
Bloomsbury Publishing
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Part 1 Feral Trees; Chapter 1 The tree of heaven; Chapter 2 In a dappled world; Chapter 3 A branching heuristic; Part 2 Garden and Forest; Chapter 4 In the tree museum; Chapter 5 From Ailanthus to apple;...
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Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Part 1 Feral Trees; Chapter 1 The tree of heaven; Chapter 2 In a dappled world; Chapter 3 A branching heuristic; Part 2 Garden and Forest; Chapter 4 In the tree museum; Chapter 5 From Ailanthus to apple; Chapter 6 The charter of the forests; Part 3 A Dark Abundance; Chapter 7 The tree and/in history; Chapter 8 With and without us; Notes; The tree of heaven; In a dappled world; A branching heuristic; In the tree museum; From Ailanthus to apple; The charter of the forests; The tree and in history; With and without us; Index. "Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower over us and yet fade into background. Their lifespan outstrips ours, and yet their wisdom remains inscrutable, treasured up in the heartwood. They serve us in many ways--as keel, lodgepole, and execution site--and yet to become human, we had to come down from their limbs. In this book Matthew Battles follows the tree's branches across art, poetry, and landscape, marking the edges of imagination with wildness and shadow."-- "Explores via art and literature our complicated material and economic entanglements with trees and their products"--
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic, London, England
;
Bloomsbury Publishing
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Part 1 Feral Trees; Chapter 1 The tree of heaven; Chapter 2 In a dappled world; Chapter 3 A branching heuristic; Part 2 Garden and Forest; Chapter 4 In the tree museum; Chapter 5 From Ailanthus to apple;...
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Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Part 1 Feral Trees; Chapter 1 The tree of heaven; Chapter 2 In a dappled world; Chapter 3 A branching heuristic; Part 2 Garden and Forest; Chapter 4 In the tree museum; Chapter 5 From Ailanthus to apple; Chapter 6 The charter of the forests; Part 3 A Dark Abundance; Chapter 7 The tree and/in history; Chapter 8 With and without us; Notes; The tree of heaven; In a dappled world; A branching heuristic; In the tree museum; From Ailanthus to apple; The charter of the forests; The tree and in history; With and without us; Index. "Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower over us and yet fade into background. Their lifespan outstrips ours, and yet their wisdom remains inscrutable, treasured up in the heartwood. They serve us in many ways--as keel, lodgepole, and execution site--and yet to become human, we had to come down from their limbs. In this book Matthew Battles follows the tree's branches across art, poetry, and landscape, marking the edges of imagination with wildness and shadow."-- "Explores via art and literature our complicated material and economic entanglements with trees and their products"--
