나무와 함께한 3,500년의 여정

a dramatic black-and-white photograph of the underside of a dragon blood tree

Beth Moon, “Heart of the Dragon” (2010), archival pigment inks on cotton paper, 32 × 48 inches. Image © Beth Moon, courtesy of the artist, shared with permission

나무에 대한 우리의 매혹이 3,500년을 아우르며 펼쳐진다. 파이돈에서 출간 예정인 Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World는 예술, 과학, 역사, 그리고 문화 속에서 나무가 차지한 독특한 위치를 탐구하는 책이다. 300점 이상의 삽화가 실려 있으며, 고대 벽화부터 현대 아티스트들의 멀티미디어 작품에 이르기까지 다양한 시각에서 나무를 다룬다.

이 책은 단순히 예술적 표현에 그치지 않고, 나무의 과학적, 역사적 측면도 함께 조명한다. 베스 문의 웅장한 흑백 사진부터 로리 닉스와 캐슬린 거버의 세밀한 디오라마, 쇼타 스즈키의 금속 조각까지, 수많은 작품이 등장해 나무가 어떻게 우리 삶과 얽혀 있는지 보여준다.

세상에 존재하는 다양한 나무 종을 탐구하며, 나무와의 연결이 단순한 자연 감상이 아닌, 깊은 문화적 의미를 지니고 있음을 느끼게 한다. 만약 이 매혹적인 나무의 세계에 빠져들 준비가 됐다면, 이 책을 한 권 집어들어 보는 건 어떨까?

a photograph of a realistic miniature diorama of an old library that has been abandoned and is getting overgrown by trees and vines

Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber, “Library” (2007), archival pigment print, 48 x 60 inches. Image courtesy of Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, and Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida

a painting on paper of an Egyptian funerary scene, recreated from an original tomb painting

Charles K. Wilkinson, “Funeral Ritual in a Garden” (1921), tempera on paper, 28 × 48 inches. Image courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art/Rogers Fund, 1930

a delicate metal sculpture of a sapling growing out of a small pile of dead leaves

Shota Suzuki, “Heaven and Earth” (2023), copper, brass, nickel silver and patina, 8 × 8 × 8 1/2 inches Image courtesy of the artist

a mixed-media collage of a Black woman wearing a grass cloak, seated in a forest with her chin resting in her hands

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, “Secrets of the Magnolia Tree” (2021), watercolor, ink, gouache, and photograph on archival paper, triptych, overall 132 x 90 inches. Image courtesy of Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco

a color study using leaves that are shown in a grid with a gradient of light to dark running from left to right

Gary Fabian Miller, “Breathing in the Beech Wood, Homeland, Dartmoor, Twenty-Four Days of Sunlight” (2004), dye destruction prints, 64 x 64 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Victoria and Albert Museum, London

a 17th-century ink painting on silk depicting a tree with paper banners hanging from the branches

Tosa Mitsuoki, “Autumn Maples with Poem Slips” (c.1675), ink, colours, gold leaf and gold powder on silk, 56 x 108 inches. Image courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago

a 19th-century illustration of a bird and moths in an Indian Jujube tree

Sheikh Zain-al-Din, “Brahminy Starling with Two Antheraea Moths, Caterpillar and Cocoon on Indian Jujube Tree” (1777), opaque colors and ink on paper, 30 × 38 inches. Courtesy of Minneapolis Institute of Art

the cover of a book titled ‘Tree’ with a collage of a tree’s leaves on a blue background

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