Archives
Research Guides
Art & Activism Books
Art and activism : projects of John and Dominique de Menil by Call Number: N576.H68 A68 2010
Black Panther : the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas by Call Number: NC999.4.D68 A4 2006
Living as form : socially engaged art from 1991-2011 by Call Number: N8243.S65 L58 2012
Show and tell : a chronicle of Group Material by Call Number: N6535.N5 G76 2010
Brecht on theatre : the development of an aesthetic by Call Number: PN2021 .B68 1978
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans : a field guide by Call Number: N6537.C462 A4 2010
At a distance : precursors to art and activism on the Internet by Call Number: N72.T45 A86 2005
Staging Femininities by Call Number: PN2270.F45 H37 1999ISBN: 9780719052637Publication Date: 1999-08-21This work focuses on the work of performance artists Rose English, Bobby Baker, and Annie Sprinkle as a means of explicating and examining some of the most influential thinking on the politics of identity produced in the 1980s and 1990s.
Photography as activism : images for social change by Call Number: TR820.5 .B655 2012
Photography changes everything by Call Number: TR183 .P487 2012
Photographs objects histories : on the materiality of images by Call Number: GN34.3.P45 P48 2004
Education by Call Number: N90 .E33 2011
Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education by Call Number: N353.C66 1996
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Call Number: LB880 .F7313
Conversation pieces : community and communication in modern art by Call Number: N6494.I57 K47 2004
The politics of aesthetics : the distribution of the sensible by Call Number: BH301.P64 R3513 2006
Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism by Call Number: NA2543.S6 E96 2008
Design futuring : sustainability, ethics, and new practice by Call Number: NK1510 .F77 2009
Design activism : beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world by Call Number: NK1390 .F83 2009
Small Scale, Big Change by Call Number: NA2543.S6 L47 2010ISBN: 9780870707841Publication Date: 2010-10-31
Library Resources
- Prism CatalogSearch for books, ebooks, movies, articles, magazines, images and more in the SVA Library.
- A-Z DatabasesFind millions of articles and images using our e-resources.
- Research Tools & Information LiteracyA guide to doing research, evaluating sources, writing, citing, plagiarism, and copyright.
Arts Websites
- Art and FeminismWe are students, librarians, professors, artists, art workers, and art lovers who create meaningful changes to the body of knowledge available about women on Wikipedia.
- Heresies PDF ArchiveThe archive of the feminist art collective, The Heresies, published from 1977-1993.
- Interference ArchiveAn archive consisting of many kinds of objects (posters, flyers, publications, photographs, books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, audio recordings, and other materials) that are created as part of social movements by the participants themselves.
- Newsreel FilmsA rare, and rather complete collection of the early films made by Newsreel (aka: Camera News Inc.) in the late 1960's. This body of work is available, both on Beta, 3/4 inch and VHS formats. The majority of the archives are concerned with the political movements of the '60's through '80's.
- Printed MatterA non-profit store that circulates over 32,000 publications annually on behalf of artists and small presses.
- Visual AIDSFounded in 1988, Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by producing and presenting visual art projects, exhibitions, public forums and publications - while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. We are committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement. We embrace diversity and difference in our staff, leadership, artists and audiences.
Archival Collections
- Design of Dissent CollectionLocated in the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives at SVA Library, this collection contains design objects that were part of an exhibition organized by Mirko Ilic and Milton Glaser in 2005. The Archives are open to everyone by appointment.
Design of Dissent by Call Number: NX650.P6 G53 2005ISBN: 1592531172Publication Date: 2005-09-01The corresponding book to the archives' Design of Dissent Collection.
Streaming Documentaries
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Kanopy is a streaming video platform with a "Netflix-like" user experience and a broad, curated selection of documentaries, indie movies, classics, feature films and training videos. Films can be watched from anywhere, anytime by current students, faculty, and staff.
