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.

Notes on Contributors VII 1 Introduction: Exploring Nature’s Texture  Sigurd Bergmann and Forrest Clingerman Part 1: Seeing 2 With-In: Towards an Aesth/Ethics of Prepositions  Sigurd Bergmann 3 The Atmospheric Turn  Karolina Sobecka Part 2: Wondering 4 Wonder and Ernst Haeckel’s Aesthetics of Nature  Whitney Bauman 5 Art without an Object but with Impact  George Steinmann 6 Between Science and Art: An Anthropological Odyssey  Tim Ingold Part 3: Connecting 7 The Black Wood: Relations, Empathy and a Feeling of Oneness in Caledonian Pine Forests  Reiko Goto and Tim Collins 8 Cultivated and Governed or Free and Wild? On Assessing Gardens and Parks Aesthetically  Arto Haapala 9 Where Embodiment Meets Environment: A Meditation on the Work of Hans Breder and Ana Mendieta with an Accompanying Interview with Hans Breder  J. Sage Elwell 10 Conclusion: The Aesthetic Roots of Environmental Amnesia: The Work of Art and the Imagination of Place  Forrest Clingerman Index