Object Lessons: Tree

基本信息

Series:Object Lessons

Format:Paperback / softback 152 pages, 19 b/w illustrations

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic USA

ISBN:9781628920512

Published:9 Mar 2017

Weight:140g

Dimensions:123 x 165 x 18 (mm)

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

《實例研究》系列內容簡短，設計精美，探索生活中常見物件的鮮為人知的故事，激勵我們重新審視日常生活中我們習以為常的事物。

通過藝術和文學的角度，探索我們與樹木及其產品之間複雜的物質和經濟糾葛。

《實例研究：樹》從古代追溯到現在，探索了這種生物與人類糾纏的形式、用途和聯盟。樹木高聳在我們頭頂，卻又漸漸消失在背景中。它們的壽命比我們長，但它們的智慧仍是不可思議的，珍藏在心間。它們在很多方面為我們服務——龍骨、海灘和執行場所——但要成為人類，我們必須從它們的四肢上下來。在這本書中，馬太·沃夫斯跟隨樹枝穿越藝術、詩歌和風景，用野性和陰影標記想象的邊緣。

Explores via art and literature our complicated material and economic entanglements with trees and their products.

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.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.

目錄

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

作者簡介

Matthew Battles is Associate Director of the metaLAB and Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, USA. His previous publications include Library: an Unquiet History (2004), The Sovereignties of Invention (2012) and Library Beyond the Book (2014).