Contact info
If you need help, please contact Sylvia Roberts, Liaison Librarian for Communication & Contemporary Arts at SFU Vancouver: 778.782.5043 (main) SFU Burnaby: 778.782.3681 or sroberts@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian.
This guide lists selected print and electronic information sources available to SFU faculty, students, and staff. Check the SFU Library Catalogue to find additional materials.
Course reserves
Search for reserves in the Library Catalogue by course number or instructor. Course reserves for Contemporary Arts (prefix CA) can be found by searching Course ID contains CA.
Topic and course guides
FPA 227 -- Dance History Research
New resources
Lists of new Contemporary Arts resources added to the SFU Library are updated on a monthly basis. You can also browse through lists of all resources added to the library within the last week or the last month.
- Art after empire : from colonialism to globalisation
- Trevor Paglen
- REMEX : toward an art history of the NAFTA era
- Brand new : art & commodity in the 1980s
- May we forever stand : a history of the black national anthem
- Experimentalisms in practice : music perspectives from Latin America
- Hong Kong horror cinema
- Songs for sabotage : new museum triennial 2018
- Aesthetic experience and somaesthetics
- Living art : individual and collective creativity : becoming Paul-Émile Borduas
- The playboy and James Bond : 007, Ian Fleming and Playboy magazine
- Stranger than paradise
- Walter De Maria : the Lightning field
- The Beaver Hall Group and its legacy
- Historians on Hamilton : how a blockbuster musical is restaging America
- Danger : Diabolik
- Humanity
- Theaters of the everyday : aesthetic democracy on the American stage
- Music and Empathy
- Jerzy Grotowski
- Frank Stella
- The Hollywood brand : movies and American modernity
- The birth of the American horror film
- The Long Dream of Waking: New Perspectives on Len Lye
- Making the Americas modern : hemispheric art, 1910-1960
- Why science needs art : from historical to modern day perspectives
- Turn that thing off! : collaboration and technology in 21st century actor training
- The semiotics of light and shadows : modern visual arts and Weimar cinema
- Beyond Eastern noir : reimagining Russia and Eastern Europe in Nordic cinemas
- Artistic visions of the Anthropocene North: climate change and nature in art