There are four major types of selection scheme on public sculpture installation by the local government ; 1) Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition of Ube City, 2) Catalogue Selection of Nagano City, 3) Sculpture Symposium of Hachioji City, and 4) Site Specific Contract of Sendai City. This paper focuses on one of these schemes, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, as part of the local public sculpture installation program. Ube and followers like Kobe, Hatano, Odawara among other municipalities, explored the possiblities of Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition scheme, and many variations have been emerged as a result. This paper analyzes the revisions of the selection scheme and the purposes of the Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition as sculpture installation program.
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