Tree /

Tree /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Battles, Matthew (Author)
Other Authors: Newman, Sarah W. (Photographer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2017]
Series:Object lessons.
Subjects:
Trees in literature.
Trees in art.
Trees.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Part One: Feral Trees
  • The Tree of Heaven
  • In a Dappled World
  • A branching Heuristic
  • Part Two: Garden and Forest
  • In the Tree Museum
  • From Ailanthus to Apple
  • The Charter of the Forests
  • Part Three: A Dark Abundance
  • The Tree and/in History
  • With and Without Us Notes
  • Index.