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Quick questions on Gathering and using contextual sources - OCR A-Level Art and Design
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What are unreliable sources?Show answer
Anonymous image sites can mislead on facts. Use museum and gallery material, monographs and reputable books, and record them for your bibliography.
What is no bibliography?Show answer
The related study must acknowledge its sources. Keep a record of every source as you go, not at the end.
What is q1?Show answer
State four things that seeing an artwork first-hand reveals that a reproduction loses. [Knowledge recall]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain why a pinned-up collection of artist images with copied captions earns little for AO1. [Short explanation]
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