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The Language of Trees
How Trees Make Our World, Change Our Minds and Rewild Our Lives
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The Language of Trees
Inspired by forests, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees is a gorgeously illustrated collection, a love letter to the wonder of trees – and how they make our world, stretch our minds and rewild our landscapes and lives.
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The Language of Trees is a gorgeously illustrated homage to the hidden wonders of the forest and our indelible connection to trees, filled with prose, poetry, and art from over fifty collaborators, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Elizabeth Kolbert, Amitav Ghosh, Richard Powers, Suzanne Simard, Gaia Vince, Tacita Dean, Plato, and Robin Wall Kimmerer.
In this deeply thoughtful collection, artist Katie Holten gifts readers her visual Tree Alphabet – made of the trees themselves – and uses it to masterfully translate and illustrate these pieces from some of the world’s most exciting writers and artists, activists, and ecologists.
Holten guides us on a journey from prehistoric cave paintings and creation myths 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. In doing so, she unearths a new way of seeing the natural beauty that surrounds us and creates an urgent reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away.
The Language of Trees is an astonishing fusion of storytelling, knowledge, and art that reveals how these living, feeling, communicating beings make our world, change our minds, and rewild our lives.
‘A visual reminder that, like strong oaks from little acorns, we still can create the world in which we wish to live.’ Kerri ní Dochartaigh
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The Language of Trees by Katie Holten is widely praised for its innovative and heartfelt "tree alphabet," which sparked significant interest and movement. Reviewers describe it as visually stunning and intellectually engaging, with beautiful illustrations that celebrate nature. It's considered a masterpiece and a vital piece of environmental literature that combines art, prose, and poetry to inspire awe rather than doom.
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ISBN: 9781783967483
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 15 June 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Elliott & Thompson Limited
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 138.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 320
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Katie Holten is an artist and activist, born in Ireland and now mainly living in the USA. In 2003, she represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. She has had solo exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, 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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