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The John Berger Lecture How to draw a pigeon Stephen Farthing 4pm Thursday 26 November 1998 The Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre St Anne's College Woodstock Road Oxford Admission free Presented by The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and St Anne's College Stephen Farthing is the Ruskin Master of Drawing at the University of Oxford. He studied painting at St Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London between 1969 and 1976 and was Abbey Major Scholar at the British School at Rome in 1976-77. Before his appointment at Oxford, he was Lecturer in Painting at Canterbury College of Art, Visiting Lecturer in Painting at the Royal College and Head of Painting at West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham. He has exhibited extensively both in this country and abroad, was artist-in-residence at the Hayward Gallery in London during the course of the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition in 1989 and represented Britain in the Sao Paulo Biennale in Brazil in 1990. He had a one-person show at the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto in 1995 and will be exhibiting at the Otemae Arts Centre in Kobe in 1999. The lecture begins from the premise that the act of drawing comprises a record of measurement. It proceeds with an historical exploration of the business of learning to draw through an examination of the writings of Archie Coats, Lionel Lindsay and John Ruskin and concludes with a discussion about the curriculum in British art schools today. The John Berger Lectures take place on an occasional basis and focus on various aspects of art history. The series is organised by The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. The overall title salutes the seminal and ongoing contribution of John Berger to the study of the visual arts. (With apologies for cross-posting) ******************************************************************** Paul Bonaventura Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art Studies The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art 74 High Street Oxford OX1 4BG Telephone 01865 276940 Telefax 01865 276949 Email [log in to unmask] http://www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/lab ******************************************************************** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%