MACA (MA in Contemporary Art): Books, dissertations and essays

 

E-books

Most e-books will be found with Summon.

However please also see the e-book guide for:

• more info about the e-book collections available in Summon
• links to other e-book collections which need to be searched separately from Summon

E-books on specific topics are collected here:

• AI: background and ethics
• art fairs and biennials
• contemporary women artists
• curating
• digital art
• East European art, 1945 onwards
• film and video art
• modern and contemporary Chinese art
• modern and contemporary Latin American art
• performance art
• photography: 6 themed collections
• postcolonialism: background reading
• public art
• queer theory
• sound art
• women artists: theoretical and introductory

 

Other e-book collections:

• MoMA exhibition catalogues
• Primary Information: books about 1960s and 1970s conceptual art and performance
• Whitney Biennial: all catalogues up to 1995 online, with artist lists for more recent editions

 

Books

Relevant sections in the library include:

• FIA1.BIE biennials
• FIA2.20C  fine art, 20th century
• FIA2.21C fine art, 21st century
• FIA3 fine art, Asia
• FIA4 fine art, Africa
• FIA6 fine art, Europe
• FIA7 fine art, Americas
• FIA8 individual fine artists
• PHO photography
• THE theory - cultural, artistic, political and psychological theory

 

Dissertations

A selection of MACA dissertations are online here:

• link for 2023-24 students

And dissertations from our New York campus, including many from MACA, are here:

• New York online dissertations

The following links will take you to lists of relevant dissertations kept in physical form in the London library:

• MACA dissertations 
• MAMCAA (MA in Modern and Contemporary Art) dissertations (MA in Modern and Contemporary Asian Art, 2016-2022)
• MAP dissertations (MA in Photography, 2007-2016)

See also:

• dissertations guide for more info about accessing past SIA dissertations
• dissertations and theses from other colleges and universities

 

MACA01 and MACA02 essays

The library keeps a selection of previous MACA essays which received distinctions.

• list of MACA01 essays 
• list of MACA02 essays 

Records for these can also be found with Summon, where they are categorised as SIA Essay.

Important: please note that the guidelines for these essays may change somewhat from year to year, even if the overall essay title remains the same. Therefore an essay from a previous year should not be treated as an exact model for your own assignment.

 

Ordering essays from store

You can order 4 essays from store at any one time.  We collect essays at these times:

• 10am
• 11.30am
• 3pm
• 4.30pm

You can request an essay in one of these ways: 

• fill out a form in the library
• email library@sia.edu
• call us on 44 (0) 207 462 3240

Please give us this information when requesting an essay:

• authors' name
• first few words of title
• essay number (e.g. MACA01 #20)  

Please remember these rules for reading essays:

• they may only be read in the library
• please sign the coversheet each time you read an essay
• only the bibliography may be copied, scanned or photographed, although you can copy quotations by hand from the essay itself.