This title was first published in 2002: The environment raises basic questions about many of the fundamental concepts and doctrines in aesthetics and the arts. Including new work by the leading international contributors to environmental aesthetics, this is the first book to deal with the relations between the arts and environment, directed towards a non-philosophical audience of practitioners and critics, as well as theorists. Introducing many of the basic ideas and issues in the theory of the arts, particularly as they bear on environment, this book addresses the special concerns of an aesthetics of environment and explores the implications of environmental aesthetics for understanding both aesthetic theory and the aesthetic of individual arts. Key topics covered include: the mutual relevance of art and environment, appreciation in art and nature, appraising nature, architecture and the urban environment, the relationships between environmental ethics and aesthetics, the environmental implications of some specific arts, environment and popular culture, and the significance of environment technologies for aesthetics and the arts. Contributors are drawn from a range of nationalities and cultures that have signal importance for environmental aesthetics, including Great Britain, the United States, Finland, and Japan. Environment and the Arts provides an introduction to some of the most intriguing and compelling questions about understanding and appreciating the arts and environment, setting a mark for the field and opening the topics to a wider audience.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction: Art, environment and the shaping of experience, Arnold Berleant; Data and theory in aesthetics: philosophical understanding and misunderstanding, Ronald W. Hepburn; The two aesthetic cultures: the great analogy of art and the environment, Yrjö Sepänmaa; Art and nature: the interplay of works of art and natural phenomena, Arto Haapala; Nature appreciation and the question of aesthetic relevance, Allen Carlson; Embodied metaphors, Kaia Lehari; Urban richness and the art of building, Pauline von Bonsdorff; Front yards, Kevin Melchionne; Aesthetics, ethics and the natural environment, Emily Brady; From beauty to duty: aesthetics of nature and environmental ethics, Holmes Rolston; Embodied music, Arnold Berleant; Dot.com Dot.edu: technology and environmental aesthetics in Japan, Barbara Sandrisser; Environmental directions for aesthetics and the arts, Yuriko Saito; Index.