Public Art & Health

Public art and its landscape setting

Research record PAH-051 · Finding, limitations, sources and publication relationships.

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· 2014 · Japan

Findings, methods and sources

Adjacent evidenceObservational / experimentalReported benefit

Finding. Image-rating experiments found that responses to public art differed between urban and natural settings.

Limitation. Scene preferences are not clinical outcomes. The findings support testing the artwork within its intended setting.

Motoyama Y, Hanyu K. Does public art enrich landscapes? The effect of public art on visual properties and affective appraisals of landscapes. J Environ Psychol. 2014;40:14–25.

Methods and verification

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Design
Two rating experiments with manipulated landscape images
Sample / scope
University students (numbers not extracted)
Setting
Urban and natural landscapes, not healthcare
Art form
Public art

Citation metadata checked against Crossref; abstract not accessible, 29 September 2026

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Publications and overlap

No confirmed shared-publication match is recorded for this entry in Edition 4.11. Source-by-source and participant-level reconciliation is incomplete; this does not establish an independent study.

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