The Fairmount Park Art Association, established in 1872, is the nation's first private, nonprofit organization dedicated to the integration of public art and urban planning. This book, New Land Marks: Public Art, Community and the Meaning of Place, documents a two year effort to plan and create unique and original public art projects. This book combines the artists' imagination, creativity, skll, and energy withthe knowledge, experience, commitment and enthusiasm of communities. The work of 16 artists are included in this book, artists such as Zevilla Jackson Preston, Todd Noew and Pepon Osorio. Included also are essays by outstanding art critics and historians. The publication of the book coincides with an exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadephia, February 10-April 15, 2001.

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