Tom Jeffreys

The White Birch

A Russian Reflection

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The White Birch is a wide-ranging history of the relationship between Russian art, landscape and identity, through the lens of the white birch, Russia's unofficial national tree.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 143mm x 225mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781472155672
• ISBN-10: 147215567X
• Artikelnr.: 60590959

Autorenporträt

Tom Jeffreys is a writer and critic with a particular interest in art that engages with environmental questions. His writing has appeared in publications including ArtReview, Frieze, the Independent, Monocle, New Scientist and The World of Interiors. He is the author of Signal Failure: London to Birmingham, HS2 on foot (Influx Press, 2017) and editor of online magazine The Learned Pig. He lives in Edinburgh and is obsessed with cricket.

Rezensionen

A natural-political exploration of Russian relationships with the birch tree across past, present, and future. Moving from the Tsarina's garden to the Soviet Gulag, from Chernobyl to Lake Baikal, The White Birch is elegant and intrepid, like its subject Daisy Hildyard, author of The Second Body and Hunters in the Snow