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Exercise 5.2 – Questions for seller (P.120)

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Question for Seller re-situates images in a different context and in so doing allows for a new dialogue to take place. Reflect on the following in your learning log: • Does their presence on a gallery wall give these images an elevated status? • Where does their meaning derive from? • When they are sold (again on eBay, via auction direct from the gallery) is their value increased by the fact that they’re now ‘art’? • Does their presence on a gallery wall give these images an elevated status? Objectively displaying these images on a gallery wall does not change … Continue reading Exercise 5.2 – Questions for seller (P.120)

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Exercise 5.1 – Setting the scene (P.109)

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Watch this famous scene from Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese in 1990: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJEEVtqXdK8 [accessed 24/02/14] Don’t read on until you’ve answered the following questions. • What does this scene tell you about the main character? • How does it do this? List the ‘clues’. Make some notes in your learning log. The scene is a single shot of Henry Hill, the lead character, taking Karen Friedman to the Copacobana nightclub. The scene tells us quite a lot about Henry: He is literally and metaphorically a man who knows his way around. He is determined to get what he wants and … Continue reading Exercise 5.1 – Setting the scene (P.109)