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Contemporary Art and Design
Guide to contemporary art information resources and image research at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA).
Last Updated: Jun 16, 2013
URL: http://libguides.library.usyd.edu.au/visarts
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The focus of this guide is to link art practice with art research.
Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) Library is located at the Rozelle Campus at the University of Sydney.
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Call Number: 126 318
An epic project in both size and purview, Peter Sloterdijk's three-volume, 2,500-page Spheres is the late-twentieth-century bookend to Heidegger's Being and Time.
Call Number: 759.13 RYD 7
Blending themes of pop culture with techniques reminiscent of the old masters, Mark Ryden has created a singular style that blurs the traditional boundaries between high and low art.
Call Number: 708.949332 1
Sympathy for the Devil refers to the first track on the Rolling Stones album Beggars Banquet. Each of the selected art works in this book about contemporary artists are linked in one way or another to prominent ideas in the song: the fascinating beauty of evil, the attraction of moral or psychological hell, death and danger as a celebration of life, extreme and transgressive behavior and even a pronounced tendency towards sexuality.
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Who painted this?
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, The Librarian, 1566. Oil on canvas, 38"X28", Skokloster Castle, Sweden.
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Call Number: 759.5 ARC 1
A study of his life and art which contains many glossy coloured images of his work.
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