THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING

A one-day conference on John Ruskin, Victorian art education, and the
use of teaching collections, held to mark the launch of "The Elements
of Drawing: An online version of Ruskin's Teaching Collections at
Oxford"

Wednesday 20 October 2004, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Speakers:

Robert Hewison, "I have not been trying to teach you to draw, only to
see": Ruskin and the London Working Men's College

Jacqueline Yallop, "A panorama in a pillbox": Ruskin and the St
George's Museum, Sheffield

Stephen Wildman, "Stronger, sadder and wiser": Ruskin's educational
use of Dürer's work

Stroud Cornock, "All that is fine": art appreciation and education in
Britain

Hadrian Pigott, Approaching Ruskin: in thick mist, with caution
(Penzance)

The conference is free; lunch and tea will be provided.

To register, please contact Dr Rupert Shepherd, Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford OX1 2PH, U.K. T +44 (0)1865 278050. E
Rupert.shepherdashmus.ox.ac.uk W
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/ash/amulets/ruskin/

To download an A4 monochrome poster for the conference in PDF format
(225 KB), go to
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/ash/amulets/ruskin/ConferenceFlyer.pdf