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SUJET n°1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Arts et débats d’idées ». Partie 1 (16 pts) : prenez connaissance des documents A, B et C et traitez le sujet suivant en anglais : Write a short commentary on the three documents (minimum 500 words): taking into account their
SUJET n°1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Arts et débats d’idées ». Partie 1 (16 pts) : prenez connaissance des documents A, B et C et traitez le sujet suivant en anglais : Write a short commentary on the three documents (minimum 500 words): taking into account their specificities, analyse how the documents deal with American art and social protest in the 1930s. Partie 2 (4 pts) : traduisez le passage suivant du document B en français : “Sure,” cried the tenant men, “but it’s our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it’s no good, it’s still ours. That’s what makes it ours—being born on it, working it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.” “We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t like a man.” “Yes, but the bank is only made of men.” “No, you’re wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. […]” (l. 9-15) Page 2 sur 9 DOCUMENT A Thomas Hart BENTON, Prodigal Son, lithograph, on wove paper, 35 x 25.5 cm, 1939. DOCUMENT B In the wake of the Great Depression of 1929 and the Dust Bowl natural disaster, representatives of a bank have come to tell the people they are going to have to leave their land and go. “You’ll have to get off the land. The plows1 ’ll go through the dooryard.” And now the squatting men stood up angrily. “Grampa took up the land, and he had to kill the Indians and drive them away. And Pa was born here, and he killed weeds and snakes. Then a bad year came and he had to borrow a little money. An’ we was born here. There in the 5 door—our children born here. And Pa had to borrow money. The bank owned the land then, but we stayed and we got a little bit of what we raised.” “We know that—all that. It’s not us, it’s the bank. A bank isn’t like a man. Or an owner with fifty thousand acres, he isn’t like a man either. That’s the monster.” 1 Plow: charrue Page 3 sur 9 “Sure,” cried the tenant2 men, “but it’s our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born 10 on it, and