The Language of Trees (Special Edition): How Trees Make Our World, Change Our Minds, and Rewild Our Lives - Hardcover
by Katie Holten
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Tin HouseISBN-13:9781638935025ISBN-10:1638935025UPC:9781638935025Book Category:Nature, ArtBook Subcategory:Plants, Environmental & Land Art, EssaysBook Topic:TreesSize:9.10 x 6.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.568Product ID:SCEGDFW63J
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Inspiring. . . . insights that are scientific, intimate and surprising. . . . a call to action for those who still care."--The Washington Post Inspired by forests, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees returns in a stunning keepsake edition--inviting readers to discover an imaginative new language shaped by the beauty of the natural world. In this gorgeously illustrated and deeply thoughtful collection, Katie Holten gifts readers her tree alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate beloved lost and new, original writing in praise of the natural world. With an introduction from Ross Gay, and featuring writings from over fifty contributors including Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Limón, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, James Gleick, Elizabeth Kolbert, Plato, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, Holten illustrates each selection with an abiding love and reverence for the magic of trees. She guides readers on a journey from creation myths and cave paintings to the death of a 3,500-year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to the language of fossil poetry, unearthing a new way to see the natural beauty all around us and an urgent reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away. The Language of Trees considers our relationship with literature and landscape, resulting in an astonishing fusion of storytelling and art and a deeply beautiful celebration of trees through the ages.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Tin HouseISBN-13:9781638935025ISBN-10:1638935025UPC:9781638935025Book Category:Nature, ArtBook Subcategory:Plants, Environmental & Land Art, EssaysBook Topic:TreesSize:9.10 x 6.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.568Product ID:SCEGDFW63J
Katie Holten is an artist and activist. In 2003, she represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. She has had solo exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Nevada Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Her drawings investigate the tangled relationships between humans and the natural world. She has created Tree Alphabets, a Stone Alphabet, and a Wildflower Alphabet to share the joy she finds in her love of the more-than-human world. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Artforum, and frieze. She is a visiting lecturer at the New School of the Anthropocene. If she could be a tree, she would be an Oak.
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