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The Arboreal Aesthetic in French Painting

Amelia Goldsby

A writing lab for my dissertation "Trees as Bodies of Communication: The Arboreal Aesthetic in French Painting, 1780-1870"

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    PhD candidate in art history; environmental humanist; gardening novice. My research asks: What can we learn if we give trees equal narrative weight to human figures in 18th- and 19th-century painting?

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