Books

Selected with broad relevance to public art and artists, with publication details.

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    The Soundscape thumbnail
    by R Murray Schafer

    Schafer contends that we suffer from an overabundance of acoustic information and explores ways to restore our ability to hear the nuances of sounds around us. This book is a pioneering exploration of our acoustic environment, past and present, an...

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    Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context and Controversy thumbnail
    by Harriet F. Senie & Sally Webster

    In this anthology, twenty-two artists, architects, historians, critics, curators, and philosophers explore the role of public art in creating a national identity, contending that each work can only be understood by analysing the context in which i...

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    Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics thumbnail
    by Rebecca Solnit

    These provocative essays by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Solnit (Wanderlust, etc.), mostly published in magazines like the London Review of Books and Sierra and in books by other authors over the past seven years, attempts to understa...

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    Collectivism After Modernism thumbnail
    by Blake Stimson & Gregory Sholette

    Analysing collective artistic practice from the Cold War to the global present.
    The desire to speak in a collective voice has long fueled social imagination and artistic production. Prior to the Second World War, artists understood collectiv...

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