Fresh!: Contemporary Takes on Nature and Allegory

by Museum of Glass and Juli Bailer

Book Overview

The need to describe the world around us is an impulse as old as the earliest cave wall depictions of running horses and wounded bison. In this descriptive enterprise we have consistently found nature to be a valuable and inspiring companion, and over the centuries, as we moved beyond simple narrative to the complex, exhortative inventions of allegory, nature has reciprocally grown with us, giving us a crucial and familiar framework to help us...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972664920
• ISBN13: 9780972664929
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher