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Masterpiece Me

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Masterpiece Me Copyrighted imageCredit: The Open University
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 19 May 2011
Ever wanted to see how Warhol might have made you look? What about Monet or Picasso? Here's your chance...

Mapping the city, taming the city

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 17 May 2011
As people come to live in urban spaces, how do they come to terms with their surroundings? Gillian Rose explains some of the ways we...

I'm your recreator, Luke

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I'm your recreator, Luke Copyrighted imageCredit: J Garrattley under CC-BY-NC-ND licence
Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 24 Mar 2011
By slicing up Star Wars into pieces and inviting people to rework those scenes, Casey Pugh did more than just rework the movie.

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An introduction to material culture

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An introduction to material culture Copyrighted imageCredit: Used with permission
Introductory Level Duration 2 hours Updated 24 May 2013
This unit is an introduction to the study of material culture. It asks why we should study things and outlines some basic approaches to studying...

Commemoration: Visual texts

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Introductory Level Duration 4 hours Updated 24 May 2013
This unit explores the commemoration of war through treating two war memorials – the Sandham Memorial Chapel and the Royal Artillery Memorial – as 'visual...

Art in Renaissance Venice

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Advanced Level Duration 6 hours Updated 24 May 2013
This unit considers the art of Renaissance Venice and how such art was determined in many ways by the city's geographical location and ethnically diverse...