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 MAVA CROSS COURSE SEMINARS / DEBATES

MA ILLUSTRATION. LED BY JAN WOOLLEY. ROOM 114. 2.00PM FEBRUARY 9TH  [|ORIGINALITY.docx] [|SIR THOMAS NORTH’S TRANSLATION OF PLUTARCH’S LIFE OF MARCUS ANTONIUS.pdf] [|SIR THOMAS NORTH’S TRANSLATION OF PLUTARCH’S LIFE OF MARCUS ANTONIUS.docx] ORIGINALITY. In the field of Illustration plagiarism has persistently remained an area for discussion, the role of historical influences on visual language, style and ideas have remained issues for debate. At which point does inspiration and influence stop and plagiarism and forgery begin? And is there indeed any such thing as originality or genius. Or is a modern genius one that absorbs and reacts creatively to the past and the present, taking visual and intellectual influences and using their own visual voice, re-turning ideas, to regenerate meaning to a new audience. J. Woolley

QUOTE FROM PABLO PICASSO ‘GOOD ARTISTS COPY; GREAT ARTISTS STEAL’

Quote from T.S Eliot “One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. Eliot, T.S., “Philip Massinger,” The Sacred Wood, New York: Bartleby.com, 2000 Type in the content of your page here.