I personally did not find much enjoyment in this film, The Art of the Steal. In fact, the whole thing enraged me. At first I was pleased with how the movie was going and how they were telling the story of a gentleman named Albert Barnes and his collection of art, which he established as an educational institution. This act of creating a multi billion dollar foundation as a means to educate and give those who were in the lower ranks of society the opportunity to view famous pieces of art, was very pleasing and admirable. However, continuing forward, everything in my opinion became political, greed driven, and downright nonsensical. I understand that Mr. Barnes’ will stated that his foundation was never to be moved, sold, or lent to any other
“The plagiarists Tale” is an article about Quentin Rowan a man that went by the pen name Q. R. Markham. He wrote “assassin of secrets” a spy novel, after the publication of the novel James Bond fans found many similarities between the two. After further investigation results showed Quentin has plagiarized using many different novels as example. After word got out to the public the publishing company was infuriated and instantly took the novel off bookstore shelves. He said “I wish I could do it all over” he regretted everything he did. Quentin faced his consequences and is currently having a problem finding work.
Through out the duration of the war the looting and destroying of artworks continued. One might even say it was an obsession. Hitler at the time wanted to create a museum of the best art.
“…the culture industry has brought about the false elimination of the distance between art and life, and this also allows one to recognize the contradictoriness of the avant-gardiste undertaking: the result is that the Avant-garde, for all its talk of purging art of affirmation with forces of production consumption, became an accomplice in the total subsumption of Art under capitalism.”
Art for Art's Sake: Its Fallacy and Viciousness. The Art World, Vol.2. May 1917. 98-102
In The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis, the author discusses corruption and the effects of corruption on Africans living under the resource curse, or Dutch disease. He also talks about a system responsible for the looting of Africa’s natural resources to benefit individuals and companies from Chinese, French, American, Brazilian, British, Israeli, and African elites. Burgis suffered from PTSD, which stemmed from the aftermath of the Jos massacre and other events he experienced in Africa. To cope with his PTSD, Burgis wrote down what he saw during his research, experiencing tremendous guilt in the process. Instead of his initial reasoning that the Jos massacre occurred due to “ethnic rivalries”, he started to see the real reason and how the massacre
In recent decades, violent crimes in the United States of America have been on a steady decline, however, the number of people in the United States under some form of correctional control is reaching towering heights and reaching record proportions. In the last thirty years, the incarceration rates in the United States has skyrocketed; the numbers roughly quadrupled from around five hundred thousand to more than 2 million people. (NAACP)In a speech on criminal justice at Columbia University, Hillary Clinton notes that, “It’s a stark fact that the United States has less than five percent of the world’s population, yet we have almost 25 percent of the world’s total prison population. The numbers today are much higher than they were 30, 40
One important reason that their actions were foolish and immature, so they should of been punished that is because they stole from a cottage when they would've waited and explained the story and then ask for the stuff instead of stealing. According to the goats page 22 second to last paragraph it says “he put on the pants , he couldn’t stand on one leg so he had to sit down in a chair to do it”. So what Brock Cole is saying here is the evidence supports the claim because the claim was saying how they stole from a cottage without permission and my evidence is showing the movements he was doing when he was stealing clothing. Now, some might argue that they should not be punished because they were trying to do what they had to do to help them be warm, help them with I
March 7, 1943, Ruth Silten was caught stealing in the Theresienstadt ghetto trying to barter for food.
Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting which was stolen from the Louvre museum by Vincenzo Perrugia in 1911. The highly publicized theft and consequent return of the artwork catapulted it world fame and wide recognition. Therefore, the mystery sustains ongoing search and fame of the Amber Room. The ongoing search benefits Russians as it keeps the mystery alive and still points to the unfair looting and numerous losses inflicted by the Germans to the Russian cultural heritage.
"You can wipe out an entire generation, you burn their homes to the ground and somehow they will still find their way back. But if you destroy their history, you destroy their achievements and it as if they never existed"(Cambell,2014). During World War II the Nazis would go through the countries they occupied. The art they took was either put in their own museums or they burned them. The Nazis stole millions of pieces of art, mostly pieces that were made from the end of the of the 18th century up until the 1900 's. Hitler ordered his soldiers to steal the art to gain power over other cultures. At the end of the war, the Allies were on a hunt to find all the missing and stolen art the Nazis hid at the end of the war. The big debate today is if the stolen art should go back to their rightful owners. Over a span of six years, the Nazis stole millions of paintings the trails to get those back to their rightful owners has had a lasting impression on today 's world.
When you think about movies think about how long they have been around and how they changed over the years. Movies have changed over the years in many ways for Example, in the passage called How Have Movies Changed Over the Years the author Tanya Jenkins “ the most obvious difference in the movies of today versus the movies from 100 years ago is the addition of of color and sound”. My opinion is that Tanya is trying to inform us that movies we’re better back in the day when it didn’t have any color. I also feel like she is trying to persuade us to watch movies from 100 years ago but i also feel like in the other passage called Making Money in Movies Chris Thompson also known as the writer is telling us about how money use to cost thousands
One aspect of the creative industry that has remained the same throughout generations is the difficulty for artists to inject their work into popular culture. Utopian Plagiarism, Hypertextuality, and Electronic Cultural Production by Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) written in 1991 argues that “The Video revolution failed for two reasons – a lack of access and an absence of desire” (99) while artists from the documentary Press. Pause. Play. point out how easy access is to creative technology. The artists from PPP point out that it is much more difficult for good work to breakthrough into popular culture because there is so much of it. Comparing the arguments by CAE with the ideas in PPP reveals that artists breaking through into popular culture has always been difficult, but it is difficult today for different reasons than it used to be. For this reason, quality plagiarism is essential in the creative industry.
In general, pieces of art are categorized into one group of artifacts that give insight about a specific time period and culture in history. During the World War II, Adolf Hitler destroyed thousands of pieces of art that were produced by Jews. He ultimately was attempting to erase their culture by destroying their artwork and other belongings. The movie, The Rape of Europa, gives a detailed account of Hitler’s attempt to destroy a large sum of artwork, Hitler’s desire to create a museum with, what he considered, valuable artwork, and the challenges soldiers faced to save pieces of art from being destroyed.
Unlike any other markets, the art market is extremely diverse and opaque. In most cases, buyers tend to hide themselves behind the curtains (especially during important auction events or art fairs), which make it hard to get access to the accurate information (art pieces ownerships, collection ownerships and price history). As a result, the more information you have from the inside market, the more chances you gain art bus...
A Beautiful Mind may have been developed to be a crowd-pleaser as well as a tear-jerker, because you know this is a man’s life without falsities. It is blatant and true, that’s all. This film proves that there are still instances when Hollywood-produced, big budget movies are worth a viewer's investment of time and money.