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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 lifes...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
[2017]
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| Series: | Object lessons.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 142 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781628920512 1628920513 |