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Master of Fine Arts Fine Art Reading List: Module 1

Singapore Practices - Book

Contemporary art in Singapore by Gunalan Nadarajan
Call Number: 709.59570905 GUN
ISBN: 9789810564612
Publication Date: 2007
Histories, practices, interventions : a reader in Singapore contemporary art by Jeffrey Say and Seng Yu Jin.
Call Number: 709.5957 HIS
ISBN: 9789811269141
Publication Date: 2016
Siapa Nama Kamu? by Low Sze Wee (Editor)
Call Number: 709.0745957 SIA
ISBN: 9789810973520
Publication Date: 2015
Institutions, Intersections, Innovations by Jeffrey Say; Yu Jin Seng; John Clark
Call Number: 709.595709 INT
ISBN: 9789811262128
Publication Date: 2022
A changed world : Singapore art 1950s - 1970s : dialogues by Daniel Tham
Call Number: 759.95957 CHA
Publication Date: 2013

Singapore Practices - Book Chapters

Lingham, S. (1991). A Quota on Expression: Visions, Vexations & Vanishings. Contemporary Art in Singapore from the Late 1980s to the Present.
This article can be found in the book -- Negotiating Home, History, and Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia, 1991–2011, pg. 55-70.

Negotiating home, history and nation : two decades of contemporary art in Southeast Asia, 1991-2011 by Iola Lenzi
Call Number: 709.59 NEG
ISBN: 9789810881047
Publication Date: 2011

Singapore Practices - Articles

The Singapore contemporary and contemporary art in Singapore / C. J. W.-L Wee
Wee, C. J. W.‑L. (2017). The Singapore contemporary and contemporary art in Singapore. In
S. W. Low, & P. D. Flores (Eds.), Charting Thoughts: Essays on Art in Southeast Asia (pp.246‑267). Singapore: National Gallery Singapore.

Southeast Asian Practices - Books

Between Declarations and Dreams by Low Sze Wee (Editor)
Call Number: 709.59074 BET
ISBN: 9810973497
Publication Date: 2015
Eye of the Beholder by Maurizio Peleggi (Editor); John Clark (Editor); T. K. Sabapathy (Editor)
Call Number: 709.5 EYE
ISBN: 1876957107
Publication Date: 2007
Intersecting histories : contemporary turns in Southeast Asian art by T.K. Sabapathy
Call Number: 709.59 INT
ISBN: 9789810741006
Publication Date: 2012
Jahresring 63 by Ute Mete Bauer (Editor); Brigitte Oetker (Editor)
Call Number: 709.595 SOU
ISBN: 9783956792601
Publication Date: 2017
Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art by Nora A. Taylor (Editor); Boreth Ly (Editor)
Call Number: 709.5905 TAY
ISBN: 9780877277569
Publication Date: 2012
Modern Art of Southeast Asia by Roger Nelson
Call Number: 709.59 NEL
ISBN: 9789811147258
Publication Date: 2020
Telah Terbit (out now) : Southeast Asian contemporary art practices during the 1960s to 1980s by Singapore Art Museum
Call Number: 709.590904 TEL
ISBN: 9789810576233
Publication Date: 2007
Writing the Modern by Peter Schoppert (Editor); Joyce Toh (Editor); T. K. Sabapathy; Ahmad Mashadi (Editor); Susie Lingham (Editor)
Call Number: 709.59 SAB
ISBN: 9789811157639
Publication Date: 2018

Southeast Asian Practices - Journals

Southeast of now : directions in contemporary and modern art in Asia
Call Number: 709.59 SOU
Library has print copies v.1 no.1 2017 and v.2 no.1 2018. Available as electronic journal from 2017.
Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia
Call Number: E journal
Available as electronic journal from 2017

Global Contexts - Books

Art in Theory 1900-1990 by Charles Harrison (Editor); Paul Wood (Editor)
Call Number: 709.04 ART
ISBN: 0631165754
Publication Date: 1993
Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists by Christopher Kul-Want (Editor)
Call Number: 701 PHI
ISBN: 9780231140959
Publication Date: 2010
The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich
Call Number: 709 GOM
ISBN: 0714832472
Publication Date: 1995
Themes of Contemporary Art by Jean Robertson; Craig McDaniel
Call Number: 709.048 ROB
ISBN: 9780199797073
Publication Date: 2012

On writing - books

Academic Writing by Andrew P. Johnson
Call Number: 808.042 JOH
ISBN: 9781475823561
Publication Date: 2016
The Asian Modern by John Clark
Call Number: 709.5 CLA
ISBN: 9789811406072
Publication Date: 2021
Methods and Theories of Art History by Anne D'Alleva
Call Number: 709 DAL
ISBN: 9781856698993
Publication Date: 2012
A short guide to writing about art by Sylvan Barnet
Call Number: 808.0667 BAR
ISBN: 9781292059907
Publication Date: 2015
Singapore Eye by Serenella Ciclitira
Call Number: 709.59570905 SIN
ISBN: 9788857224787
Publication Date: 2015

On writing - Other resources

Fundamentals of a reference list : Part 1
Online tutorial on to create references in APA style
Fundamentals of a reference list : Part 2
Online tutorial on to create references in APA style
Fundamentals of writing - Basic 1
Online tutorials on the fundamentals of writing a paper