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Assignment:
Answer each question with your group. Talk through examples from your life and from the movie.
Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of this activity, student will have examined art as is relates to culture and identity (CLO 3 & 4), Identify and described artworks (CLO 1,2,3). And categorized artworks based on content (CLO 1-3)
1. Is art worth a life?
2. What does a "real" hero look like?
3. What is the image of a hero?
4. The Monuments Men were not typical soldiers.
- What qualities do you think typical heroes have?
- What qualities did the Monuments have that were not typical of heroes?
- What qualities did they need that made them heroes?
1. In a battle, which quality is more powerful: strength or intelligence?
a. How did the movie support or negate your answer to above?
- If you destroy artistic achievements, do you destroy a peoples? (give an example)
- Did you understand the motivation of the Nazi's?
- Did you feel the "monuments men" were wasting their lives with this work?
- How conscious were you of the collateral damage of war? What are you now aware of after watching the movie?
Why are works of art or monuments meaningful to the countries that created them?
In what ways does art belong to a culture or country?
What are the moral repercussions of stealing art?
Hilter wanted to gain ownership of certain artworks to place in his museums. Why did he want art from all over Europe? Why did he think taking art from other cultures, and peoples (even from those he hated) would glorify the Third Reich?
Why is important that every talent be put to use during times of war?
Give an example based on this movie of an unusual talent that helped this situation.
The directive of the Monuments Men was to preserve cultural properties in a war zone without interfering with military operations. Give an example of where these two items opposed each other. And give an opinion as to the benefits and negatives of the way the situation was handled.
"My knowledge of the Holocaust started really with the realization that it was not only the taking of lives...but the taking of all their belongings..." Explain how belongings are just as ultimately important as the actual owners of them.
Who owns art? Why is it important to the culture in which it's created?