LSACWeek11.2CentreforEnglishLanguageEducationUGListeningandSpeakinginAcademicContexts

SummaryofAims–Week11.2chapter9AssessmentOverview

Discussion:SummaryTocomparewithmodelanswerTopracticecollectingthoughtsToparticipateininterviewdiscussiononthetopicusinginformationfrom:ThecoursebookarticleThelectureOtherrelatedarticlesPronunciation:Reviewedpronunciation

Summary-MainPointsTopicsentence:Graffiti/KeithHaringDefinitionofgraffitiIsitvandalism?Haring’sbackgroundSemioticsArtforadvertisingSellingout?

Summary–Model1KeithHaringisagraffitiartistwhofirstbecameprominentinNewYorkCityintheearly1980s.Itisfeltbymanythatgraffitiisaformofvandalism-itisdrawinginapublicspacewithoutthepermissionoftheownerandisthereforeillegal.NewYorkCity,forexamplespendsmillionsofdollarsremovingit.Haringhoweverwasimpressedbythefluidlinesofwhathesawasanemergingartform,andaftergraduatingfromartcollege,startedtoproducehisowngraffitiinsubwaytrainsandstationsaroundthecity.?

Summary–Model2Hewasinfluencedbycontemporarygraffitiandby1960spopartistssuchasAndyWarhol.Hisaimwastoengagethepublicusingsemiotics,orcommunicatingideasusingsignsratherthanwords;communicatingcommonthemessuchasearth,death,warandlove.Hewasprolific,producingupto30drawingsaday,whichcaughttheattentionofthepublic.Theirdiscussionalertedthemedia,andin1982,Haringhadhisowngalleryexhibition.

Summary–Model3Hesubsequentlystartedworkingonprojectsforsocialcauses,charitiesandgroupartprojects;andalsoonadvertising-hisworkstartedappearingonposters,hatsandt-shirts.Followingthesuccessofthisin1986heopenedPopShoptosellhisart.Thiscausedmanycriticstosayhewas“sellingout”orallowinghisartisticintegritytobecompromisedbyhisdesiretomakeprofit;butHaringdisagreed,sa