The Feral Muse (1)

By: Matthew Battles
June 7, 2010

Tearing apart a boar in the forest with the Chateau de Vincennes on the horizon. From the calendar page for December, Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry (1416).

Football pitch in Budapest, Hungary. Photograph by Hans van der Meer, whose book EUROPEAN FIELDS: the landscape of Lower League Football (2006) features photographs of amateur pitches throughout the landscapes of Europe.

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Part of the founding HILOBROW crew, Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology has appeared in such venues as The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Orion. His most recent book,Tree, was published in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2017. After ten years exploring the dark abundance of libraries and museums with metaLAB (at) Harvard, Matthew now edits Arnoldia: the Nature of Trees, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum.

The Feral Muse (1)

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