Edited by Phaidon Editors, with an introduction by Tony Kirkham, Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World is a hardback survey of how trees have been pictured, studied, and celebrated across art and culture.

It presents more than 300 full-page images, using the tree as its central subject and organising principle.

The selection ranges from landscape painting and botanical drawing to ancient frescos, vintage book illustration, and contemporary photography.

It spans continents and cultures, with visuals dating from Ancient Greece to the present day.

Species appear as both botanical subjects and symbols, including giant sequoias, cherry blossoms, palms, poplars, and ginkgoes from across Earth’s forest biomes.

Individual spreads move between Roman stone mosaics, illustrated Norse myths, Edo-period woodblock prints, and living tree installations.

The images are curated by an international advisory panel of botanists, naturalists, art historians, and other specialists.

Featured artists and contributors include Ansel Adams, Paul Cézanne, Albrecht Dürer, Ernst Haeckel, Utagawa Hiroshige, Frida Kahlo, Yayoi Kusama, Sebastião Salgado, and Andy Goldsworthy.

It’s the winner of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries 2025 Award of Excellence in Series.

Hardback; 352 pages; 290 × 250 mm.

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