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Beth Moon, “Heart of the Dragon” (2010), archival pigment inks on cotton paper, 32 × 48 inches. Picture © Beth Moon, courtesy of the artist, shared with permission
Spanning 3,500 years of artwork, science, tradition, and historical past, Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World surveys the awe-inspiring magnificence and romance of timber. Forthcoming from Phaidon, the quantity contains greater than 300 illustrations starting from historical wall work and botanical illustrations to charming pictures and multimedia work by immediately’s main artists.
Tree takes an expansive strategy to the subject, introducing scientific and historic inquiry alongside creative expression and documentation of the planet’s broad number of species. From a meticulous diorama of an overgrown library by Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber and patinated metalwork by Shota Suzuki to historical Egyptian tomb work and beautiful dragon blood timber photographed by Beth Moon, the guide celebrates the myriad methods we’re interconnected with timber.
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Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber, “Library” (2007), archival pigment print, 48 x 60 inches. Picture courtesy of Columbus Museum of Artwork, Ohio, and Harn Museum of Artwork, Gainesville, Florida
Charles Okay. Wilkinson, “Funeral Ritual in a Garden” (1921), tempera on paper, 28 × 48 inches. Picture courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Artwork/Rogers Fund, 1930
Shota Suzuki, “Heaven and Earth” (2023), copper, brass, nickel silver and patina, 8 × 8 × 8 1/2 inches Picture courtesy of the artist
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, “Secrets of the Magnolia Tree” (2021), watercolor, ink, gouache, and {photograph} on archival paper, triptych, total 132 x 90 inches. Picture courtesy of Museum of Fashionable Artwork, New York, and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco
Gary Fabian Miller, “Breathing in the Beech Wood, Homeland, Dartmoor, Twenty-Four Days of Sunlight” (2004), dye destruction prints, 64 x 64 inches. Picture courtesy of the artist and Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Tosa Mitsuoki, “Autumn Maples with Poem Slips” (c.1675), ink, colors, gold leaf and gold powder on silk, 56 x 108 inches. Picture courtesy of Artwork Institute of Chicago
Sheikh Zain-al-Din, “Brahminy Starling with Two Antheraea Moths, Caterpillar and Cocoon on Indian Jujube Tree” (1777), opaque colours and ink on paper, 30 × 38 inches. Courtesy of Minneapolis Institute of Artwork
the duvet of a guide titled ‘Tree’ with a collage of a tree’s leaves on a blue background
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