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Book Review: Anne D’Alleva’s 'How to Write Art History'
Posted: 08/11/18 09:40 |
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Writing about works of art can be tricky, especially if you’re trying to build up a body of knowledge from a standing start as well as link it — perhaps at the repeated behest of your tutor — to work that you’ve made. Finding a way to turn the experience of looking at something into meaningful text isn’t easy, but developing a way of clearly writing about the visual is an important skill to acquire when studying art.
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Work the way you want – why is a lifestyle business right for you?
Posted: 06/11/18 09:33 |
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Whether it’s photography, painting, or even interior design, if you can imagine anything you’ve made appearing on Pinterest, it has the potential to earn you some income. And that means you have the potential to become a lifestyle entrepreneur.
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Posting images post-digital
Posted: 05/11/18 09:29 |
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We all use – and therefore copy – artworks to illustrate our own research, but as we have seen taking and using these images is complicated. In this post I am using the primary source of artworks – galleries – as a case study to examine the post-digital shift in how copyright is thought of and applied.
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October was Black History Month…
Posted: 31/10/18 02:20 |
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…and as part of this we asked OCA programme leaders to share some important practitioners to point students towards and remember artists and events in the history of the African diaspora. This is list is just the beginning of a longer one we hope, please add to it in the comments below.
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OCA North event – Halifax
Posted: 29/10/18 09:05 |
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The next OCA North will be held on Saturday 17 November 2018 in Halifax, West Yorkshire. OCA tutor and Programme Leader Rebecca Fairley will be facilitating the day.
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What has Hogarth ever done for the digital artist?
Posted: 22/10/18 10:21 |
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The question of copyright is one that has recently perplexed the student forum: a tangle of legal, moral and financial issues. Creative talent occupies quite a rare position in society, one deemed worthy of automatic protection against duplication and exploitation. In a series of blog posts I will attempt to clarify three related issues: the capture of images that may infringe copyright, the use of other people’s images as illustrations and the appropriation and altering of artworks to produce ‘new’ work.
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SHOWCASE 24 – 28 October 2018
Posted: 19/10/18 10:24 |
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Come and see what you can be part of!
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Scroll free September: Interview with Joanne Mulvihill-Allen, Academic Development Officer.
Posted: 16/10/18 09:10 |
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I decided to be a night owl, because a lot of the time I’m on my phone when the football’s on and it’s just something else to do while my partner is watching that. I thought if I put that away then I could do something else more productive. I thought I’d be good at it!
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Anyone can cook
Posted: 05/10/18 03:15 |
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You will each have your own places that give you happy memories. We want to tap into that potential within each of us by providing opportunities to engage in design practice and to learn design through new programmes at the Open College of the Arts. I’m very excited to announce that the first of these is now ready – we have a foundation in Interior Design which you can sign up for from today.
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Scroll free September: Interview with Emma George, Student Support Adviser.
Posted: 28/09/18 12:31 |
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It was my birthday so I was looking forward to getting all of my happy birthday messages as nobody posts cards anymore – I can’t have a birthday without Facebook! I haven’t looked at it though.
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