My Forests
Travels with Trees
$37.59
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2021
Summary
Join award-winning author and art historian Janine Burke in this enchanting and illuminating meander along forest trails within art, myth, history and present day.
The narratives in My Forests are a pleasure to read; like strolling down a meandering track through the trees, you never quite know what you’ll discover around that next bend.
Travel the ancient Incense Road with the Biblical Magi. Enjoy the dancing Olive groves of Tuscany and read of ‘sleeping’ Silver Birc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522877328 |
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| ISBN-10: | 052287732X |
| Author: | Janine Burke |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 654g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 157mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Janine Burke
Janine Burke is an art historian, curator and novelist. In 1977, she was the inaugural art history lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts. She published Australian Women Artists- 1840-1940 (1980) and won the 1987 Victorian Premier’s literary award for Second Sight. Her books on the Heide Circle include Joy Hester (1983) and The Heart Garden- Sunday Reed and Heide (2004). She wrote The Gods of Freud- Sigmund Freud’s Art Collection (2006) and curated Freud and Eros- Love, Lust and Longing for the Freud Museum London (2014). More recently, Burke has focused on nature. After writing Nest- The Art of Birds (2012), she curated an exhibition of nests at McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery. In 2016, she curated Human/Animal/Artist- Art Inspired by Animals there. She is Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre of Visual Arts, University of Melbourne.
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