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LOCATION:The Durham Light Infantry Museum
SUMMARY:Portraiture and Suffering
DESCRIPTION:Professor Ludmilla Jordanova, Kings College London gives this 
 talk, the second in a series of three special events presented as part of 
 the exhibition 'About Face' held in partnership with the Durham Light Infa
 ntry Museum Art Gallery.The exhibition features a display of works by the 
 surgeon artist Henry Tonks. Tonks (1862 - 1937) was a qualified surgeon an
 d an artist, practising and teaching medicine but also producing artistic 
 work and teaching at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he was Professor 
 of Drawing. During the First World War, he initially joined the Royal Army
  Medical Corps but then, from April 1916, worked with Dr Harold Gillies at
  his plastic surgery unit at the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot. This work 
 then moved to a specially dedicated unit at the Queen Mary's Hospital, Sid
 cup, where Gillies and his team developed pioneering approaches to facial 
 injuries sustained by soldiers at the front. The pastel drawings by Tonks 
 in this exhibition date from this period and starkly document and illustra
 te these facial injuries and the progress of surgical interventions. Tonks
 ' drawings not only serve as a record of the physical injuries and subsequ
 ent medical interventions but, by crossing into the field of portraiture, 
 highlight some of the personal and emotional cost of these wounds and reve
 al Tonks' skill as an artist. This is the largest loan of his works from t
 he Royal College of Surgeons to date.  Other events in the series:  Thursd
 ay 21st June 'The Face of War: Figuring Empathy in Pat Barker's Life Class
 ',Anne Whitehead, Newcastle University  These events will take place at th
 e DLI and be followed by a wine reception. All are welcome.
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