The creation and appreciation of public art can involve many fields of knowledge, including art, conservation, history, anthropology, landscape design, urban design, architecture, and engineering. This bibliography serves as an introduction to the field of public art by suggesting reading in these related subjects.

Public Art – Philadelphia

Penny Balkin Bach, Editor
New•Land•Marks: public art, community, and the meaning of place
Grayson Publishing, Washington, DC, 2001.

Penny Balkin Bach
Public Art in Philadelphia
Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1992.

Alex Baker, Timothy W. Drescher, Robin Rice, Judith Tannenbaum, Sharon Zukin, contributors
Wall Power
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2000.

Roslyn F. Brenner
Philadelphia's Outdoor Art: A Walking Tour, 3rd edition
Camino Books, Philadelphia, 2002.

Julie Courtney, Curator
Points of Departure: Art on the Line
Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA, 2001.

Julie Courtney and Todd Gilens, Project Directors
Prison Sentences: The Prison as Site/The Prison as Subject
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, 1995.
Distributed by DAP/Distributed Art Publishers, New York.

Fairmount Park Art Association
Form and Function: Proposals for Public Art in Philadelphia
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Fairmount Park Art Association, Philadelphia, 1982.

Fairmount Park Art Association
Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze and Stone
Walker Publisher Co., New York, 1974.

Jane Golden, Robin Rice, and Monica Yant Kinney
Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell
Temple University Press, Philadlephia, 2002.

Public Art – General

2000–2001 Public Art Program Directory
Public Art Network of Americans for the Arts, New York, 2000.

Jeffrey L. Cruikshank and Pam Korza
Going Public: A Field Guide to Developments in Art in Public Places
Arts Extension Service, Amherst, MA, 1988.

Tom Finkelpearl
Dialogues in Public Art
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000.

Patricia Fuller
New Works: A Public Art Project Planning Guide
Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC, 1988.

Mary Jane Jacob
Places with a Past: New Site-Specific Art at Charleston's Spoleto Festival
Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1991.

Edward T. Linenthal
The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory
Oxford University Press, New York, 2001.

Jan C. Scruggs and Joel L. Swerdlow
To Heal a Nation: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Harper & Row, New York, 1988.

Harriet F. Senie
Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition, Transformation, and Controversy
Oxford University Press, New York, 1992.

Harriet F. Senie
The Tilted Arc Controversy: Dangerous Precedent?
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2002.

Public Art – Maintenance and Conservation

Guidelines for Selecting a Conservator (download here)
The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Washington, DC, n.d.

Maintenance Considerations to Save Outdoor Sculpture: Extend a Legacy for the New Century
Heritage Preservation, Washington, DC, 1996.

Maintenance of Outdoor Sculpture: An Annotated Bibliography
Heritage Preservation, Washington, DC, 1996.

Hafthor Yngvason, Editor
Conservation and Maintenance of Contemporary Public Art
Archetype Publications Limited, London (Distributed by Americans for the Arts, New York), 2002.

Virginia Norton Naude, Editor
Sculptural Monuments in an Outdoor Environment: A Conference Held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1985.

Virginia Norton Naude and Glenn Wharton
Guide to the Maintenance of Outdoor Sculpture
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Washington, DC, 1993.

Tips, Tales and Testimonies to Save Outdoor Sculpture
Heritage Preservation, Washington, DC, 1996.

Today for Tomorrow: Designing Outdoor Sculpture
Heritage Preservation, Washington, DC, 1996.

Public Art – Controversy and Legal Issues

John W. Caldwell, Esq., and Laura G. Miller
Artist's Guide to Copyright, Patent & Trademark Law
Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Philadelphia, 1985.

Tad Crawford, Esq.
Legal Guide for the Visual Artist: The Professional's Handbook
Allworth Press, New York, 1990.

Jessica Darraby
Art, Artifact & Architecture Law
Clark, Boardman, Callaghan, Deerfield, IL, 1995.

Franklin Feldman and Stephen E. Weil with Susan Duke Biederman
Art Law: Rights and Liabilities of Creators and Collectors
Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1996.

Sherrill Jordan, Editor
Public Art, Public Controversy: The Tilted Arc on Trial
American Council for the Arts, New York, 1987.

Roy S. Kauffman, Editor
Art Law Handbook
Aspen Law & Business, New York, 2000.

Ralph E. Lerner and Judith Bresler
Art Law: The Guide for Collectors, Investors, Dealers, and Artists
Practicing Law Institute, New York, 1998.

John Henry Merryman and Albert E. Elsen
Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1987.

Gerald Nordland
Controversial Public Art: From Rodin to di Suvero
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 1983.

Andy Pressman, AIA
Professional Practice 101: A Compendium of Business and Management Strategies in Architecture
John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997.

Joseph L. Sax
Playing Darts with a Rembrandt: Public and Private Rights in Cultural Treasures
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1999.

Harriet Senie and Sally Webster, Editors
Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy
Icon Editions, New York, 1992.

Public Art – Community

Erika Doss
Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1995.

Nina Felshin, Editor
But Is It Art?: The Spirit of Art as Activism
Bay Press, Seattle, 1995.

Dolores Hayden
The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995.

Mary Jane Jacob with Michael Brenson, Editors
Conversations at the Castle: Changing Audiences and Contemporary Art
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998.

Mary Jane Jacob, Michael Brenson, and Eva M. Olson
Culture in Action
Bay Press, Seattle, 1995.

Suzanne Lacy, Editor
Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art
Bay Press, Seattle, 1995.

Lucy R. Lippard
On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place
The New Press, New York, 1999.

Lucy R. Lippard
The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
The New Press, New York, 1997.

Arlene Raven, Editor
Art in the Public Interest
UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1989.

Community and Urban Design

Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Oxford University Press, New York, 1977.

Edmund N. Bacon
Design of Cities
Penguin Press, New York, 1976.

Christine Boyer
The City of Collective Memory
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994.

Catherine R. Brown and William R. Morrish
Planning to Stay: Learning to See the Physical Features of Your Neighborhood
Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, 1994.

Clare Cooper-Marcus and Carolyn Francis, Editors
People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space
Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1990.

Dolores Hayden
The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995.

Tony Hiss
The Experience of Place
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1990.

Gianni Longo
A Guide to Great American Public Places
Urban Initiatives, New York, 1996.

Kevin Lynch
What Time Is This Place?
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1972.

Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack
Site Planning
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1960.

Bernard Rudofsky
Streets for People: A Primer for Americans
Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1969.

William Whyte
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Conservation Foundation, Washington, DC, 1980.

Environmental Art and Design

Art in Arcadia: The Gori Collection, Celli; A Tuscan Patron of Contemporary Art at His Country House
Umberto Allmemandi & C., Torino, Italy, 1994.

John Beardsley
Art and Landscape in Charleston and the Low Country: A Project of the Spoleto Festival U.S.A.
Spacemaker Press, Washington, DC, 1998.

John Beardsley
Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape
Abbeville Press, New York, 1984.

Francisco Asensio Cerver
Landscape Art
Arco Editorial Board, Barcelona, Spain, 1995.

Mark Francis, Lisa Cashdan, and Lynn Paxson
Community Open Space: Greening Neighborhoods Through Community Action and Land Conservation
Island Press, Washington, DC, 1984.

Michael Hough
Out of Place: Restoring Identity to the Regional Landscape
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1990.

Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe
The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day
Viking Press, New York, 1987.

Jory Johnson
Modern Landscape Architecture: Redefining the Garden
Abbeville Press, New York, 1991.

William M. Klein
Gardens of Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley
Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1995.

Lucy Lippard
Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory
The New Press, New York, 1983.

Ian McHarg
Design with Nature
John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1992.

Laurie Olin
Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2000.

Matthew Potteiger and Jamie Purinton
Landscape Narratives: Design Practices for Telling Stories
John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1998.

Simon Schama
Landscape and Memory
Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 1995.

John Ormsbee Simonds
Earthscape: A Manual of Environmental Planning
John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997.

John Ormsbee Simonds
Landscape Architecture: A Manual of Site Planning and Design
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1983.

Anne Whiston Spirn
Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design
Basic Books, New York, 1984.

Anne Whiston Spirn
The Language of Landscape
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1998.

Marc Treib, Editor
Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993.

Udo Weilacher
Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art
Birkhäuser, Basel and Boston, 1996.

Related Periodicals

Architecture
For subscription information, contact Architecture, Circulation Department, PO Box 2063, Marion, OH 43305-2063; (800) 745-8922. Web site: www.architecturemag.com

Landscape Architecture
For subscription information, contact The American Society of Landscape Architects, 636 Eye Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-3736; (800) 787-5267. Web site: www.asla.org

Places: A Forum of Environmental Design
For subscription information, contact Places, PO Box 1897, Lawrence, KS 66044-8897; (913) 843-1221.

Public Art Review
For subscription information, contact FORECAST Public Artworks, 2324 University Avenue West, Suite 102, St. Paul, MN 55114; (612) 641-1128. Web site: www.publicartreview.org

Sculpture
For subscription information, contact the International Sculpture Center, 1050 17th Street, NW, Suite 250, Washington, DC 20036; (202) 785-1114. Web site: www.sculpture.org

Sculpture Matters
For subscription information, contact Scottish Sculpture Trust, 6 Darnaway Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6BG, Scotland; 0131-220-4788; orders@scottishsculpturetrust.org. Web site: www.scottishsculpturetrust.org/publications/scmatters.html