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Acknowledgements

This course was written by John Butcher, Laura Hills and Jonathan Hughes.

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Unit image: courtesy of chanpipat at FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Week 1 Images

Figure 1: http://blog.ecoastmarketing.com; Figure 4: © Toneimage.Dreamstime.com; Figure 5: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk; Figure 6: Courtesy of Furness College http://www.furness.ac.uk; Figure 7: University of Wolverhampton from http://www.expressandstar.com.

Week 2 Images

Figure 1: © Yuriz/iStockphoto.com and Figure 2: © John Lund/ Getty Images.

Week 3 Images

The Porage Oats box in the introductory video is used as part of introducing a wider understanding of art in this course. The Open University does not endorse nor recommend any products or services, including the Porage Oats product.

Activities 1, 2 and 4: All content and artwork (plates) as acknowledged in Resource Booklet; Figure 1: © John Lund/Getty Images; Plates: All plates acknowledged in Resource Booklet; Introductory Video: Contains Porage Oats cover http://www.scottsporage.co.uk.

Week 3 Videos

Video: A Perfect Place to Grow: from Y031 Arts and languages Access Module, featuring artwork by Tracey Emin.

Week 4 Images

Figure 1: Illustration of Popeye by Bud Agendorf; Figure 3: © Unknown; Figure 6: © Masterfile.

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

Week 4 Lyrics

'Popeye’s Signature Song' lyrics by Sam Lerner.

Week 5 Images

Figure 2: Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie 1761-1807, National Portrait Gallery; Figure 3: Women at work – © Unknown; Figure 4: © iStockphoto.com; Figure 5 and 6: © Unknown.

Week 5 Text

Activity 1: Extract from The Guardian: Ivor Gaber ‘Working up a Sweat’, Guardian 30 July 2003. © Guardian News and Media 2003; Activity 2: Extract from The Observer: Roger Graef ‘Two families living side by side. But the gulf between rich and poor keeps them worlds apart’, Observer 20 July 2003. © Guardian News and Media 2003.

Week 8 Images

Figure 1: Martingraf/Dreamstime.com; Figure 2: My Bed, 1998 (detail), by Tracey Emin. Photograph: Murdo Macleod; Figure 3: Mother and Child (Divided) by Damien Hirst (1993). All Rights Reserved. DACS; Figure 4: Popeye by Bud Agendorf; Figure 5: © iStockphoto.com; Figure 6: Courtesy of Usborne Publishing; Figure 8: John Stillwell/PA Photos Ltd; Figure 9: Lpstudio/Dreamstime.com.

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

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