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Stacking Wood
Lipton, Mimi; Duser, Thorsten
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Description for Stacking Wood
Paperback. The country farmers of the Ausseerland in Austria take special pride in the building of their woodpiles. The wood is arranged to create highly varied patterns which are peculiar to each individual stacker. This is a photographic chronicle of this unique local tradition. Num Pages: 120 pages, 112 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; AFTB; THF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 225 x 15. Weight in Grams: 576.
The country farmers of the Ausseerland in Austria take a special pride in one of life's most humble tasks: the building of a woodpile. Pieces of wood of varying shapes, colour and sizes are arranged in highly ordered ways to form patterns that are ever surprising and constantly varied, yet peculiar to each individual slacker. "Stacking Wood" is Mimi Lipton and Thorsten Duser's photographic chronicle of this unique local tradition. These pictures of woodpiles, while not letting us forget for a moment the solid reality of the material or the simplicity of the task, have an evocative, poetic quality. They ... Read more
The country farmers of the Ausseerland in Austria take a special pride in one of life's most humble tasks: the building of a woodpile. Pieces of wood of varying shapes, colour and sizes are arranged in highly ordered ways to form patterns that are ever surprising and constantly varied, yet peculiar to each individual slacker. "Stacking Wood" is Mimi Lipton and Thorsten Duser's photographic chronicle of this unique local tradition. These pictures of woodpiles, while not letting us forget for a moment the solid reality of the material or the simplicity of the task, have an evocative, poetic quality. They ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500974070
SKU
V9780500974070
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
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