Books
Selected with broad relevance to public art and artists, with publication details.
- Booksby 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...
- Booksby 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...
- Booksby 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...
- Booksby 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...
- Booksby Ben Stringer
Rurality Re-imagined should be of interest to anyone concerned with how rural space and society is portrayed in our highly urban-centric times. It should therefore also concern those interested in narratives of urbanisation and globalisation. Mult...