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Burdock

Art / Photobook Out of Print
By: Janet Malcolm
64 pages, 27 colour illustrations
Burdock
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  • Burdock ISBN: 9780300128611 Hardback Aug 2008 Out of Print #176351
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Over the course of three summers in New England, Malcolm gathered leaves of the burdock plant, a "large rank weed" with medicinal properties "that grows along roadsides and in waste places and around derelict buildings". Influenced by Richard Avedon's unsparing portraits of famous people, Malcolm is drawn to "uncelebrated leaves" on which "life has left its mark" through the ravages of time, weather, insects, or blight. In her introduction, Malcolm reminds us that writers like Chekhov and Hawthorne have used burdock "to denote ruin and desolation". And yet, for Malcolm, Burdock is an homage to the botanical illustrators who recognized "the gorgeousness of the particulars of the things that are alive in the world".

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Janet Malcolm is the author of Diana and Nikon, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice and other books. She writes for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books and lives in New York City.
Art / Photobook Out of Print
By: Janet Malcolm
64 pages, 27 colour illustrations
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Burdock consists of a series of large colour photographs portraying a single, unusual kind of leaf in various stages of growth and decay. As such, it is a work of botanical and indeed philosophical interest as well as an art book. Like all of Malcolm's work, this project entails looking with a steely but sympathetic and extremely intelligent eye at the world around her, zeroing in on the oddities that others might miss and using them as clues through which she solves the larger mystery. Wendy Lesser"
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