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Artistic engagement with the landscape has a long history. However, we tend to associate such engagement with painters, who mimic or interpret what they see and then display it in a safe, unchanging, artificial space — indoors. It is sculptors who engage actively and physically with the landscape. Public sculpture is an art of the open air, and although more instantly recognizable in its urban manifestation, in fact there is greater potential for expression and expansion in less confined and non-architectural spaces.
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Murphy, P. (2012). Sculpture in the Irish Landscape. In: Mianowski, M. (eds) Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230360297_21
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