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LOCATION:The Durham Light Infantry Museum
SUMMARY:The Face of War: Figuring Empathy in Pat Barker's Life Class
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Anne Whitehead, Newcastle University This talk is the last
  in a series of three special events presented as part of the exhibition '
 About Face' held in partnership with the Durham Light Infantry Museum Art 
 Gallery. The exhibition features a display of works by the surgeon artist 
 Henry Tonks.Tonks (1862 - 1937) was a qualified surgeon and an artist, pra
 ctising and teaching medicine but also producing artistic work and teachin
 g at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he was Professor of Drawing. Duri
 ng the First World War, he initially joined the Royal Army Medical Corps b
 ut then, from April 1916, worked with Dr Harold Gillies at his plastic sur
 gery unit at the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot. This work then moved to a 
 specially dedicated unit at the Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, where Gilli
 es and his team developed pioneering approaches to facial injuries sustain
 ed by soldiers at the front. The pastel drawings by Tonks in this exhibiti
 on date from this period and starkly document and illustrate these facial 
 injuries and the progress of surgical interventions. Tonks' drawings not o
 nly serve as a record of the physical injuries and subsequent medical inte
 rventions but, by crossing into the field of portraiture, highlight some o
 f the personal and emotional cost of these wounds and reveal Tonks' skill 
 as an artist. This is the largest loan of his works from the Royal College
  of Surgeons to date.  This event will take place at the DLI and be follow
 ed by a wine reception. All are welcome.
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