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Arts, Religion, and the Environment : Exploring Nature's Texture.

Bergmann, Sigurd.

Arts, Religion, and the Environment : Exploring Nature's Texture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (232 pages) - Studies in Environmental Humanities Series ; v.6 . - Studies in Environmental Humanities Series .

Intro -- Arts, Religion, and the Environment: Exploring Nature's Texture -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Exploring Nature's Texture -- Part 1: Seeing -- 2 With-In: Towards an Aesth/Ethics of Prepositions -- 3 The Atmospheric Turn -- Part 2: Wondering -- 4 Wonder and Ernst Haeckel's Aesthetics of Nature -- 5 Art without an Object but with Impact -- 6 Between Science and Art: An Anthropological Odyssey -- Part 3: Connecting -- 7 The Black Wood: Relations, Empathy and a Feeling of Oneness in Caledonian Pine Forests -- 8 Cultivated and Governed or Free and Wild? On Assessing Gardens and Parks Aesthetically -- 9 Where Embodiment Meets Environment: A Meditation on the Work of Hans Breder and Ana Mendieta with an Accompanying Interview with Hans Breder -- 10 Conclusion: The Aesthetic Roots of Environmental Amnesia: The Work of Art and the Imagination of Place -- Index.

Exploring Nature's Texture brings together a collection of internationally-known group of artists, theologians, anthropologists and philosophers to look at the imaginative possibilities of using the visual arts to address the breakdown of the human relationship with the environment.

9789004358980


Art-Psychology.
Human ecology.
Nature (Aesthetics).


Electronic books.

BH301.N3 .A787 2018

133/.25

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