The Tree in Art / Let it Grow Again!

The tree and its forms and transformations in art history across the centuries is the central theme of this highly exceptional publication. The tree, as one of the most frequent artistic and sacral motifs, stimulates our imagination, but it is also an irreplaceable source of livelihood and material. It is a constant that we constantly return to in art. It cannot be appropriated by the Dutch landscape painters, nor the French Impressionists, nor Piet Mondrian, nor Joseph Beuys. The tree ranks among the repertoire of almost everyone who has ever been involved in art. The spectacular Czech-English book with multiple reproductions of artworks contains revealing texts by leading experts in the fields of iconography and iconology, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, analytical philosophy, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstructivism, environmental aesthetics, and ecofeminism.
The book was published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition held at the South Bohemian Gallery which followed the successful GROW exhibition at the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna.