NOTICE OF LECTURE:
The Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum
ANNUAL PUBLIC LECTURE
Wednesday 5th May 2004 7.00pm - Saïd Business School, Park End Street,
Oxford, UK
The Beatrice Blackwood Lecture
MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS: The image of the museum in the movies
Sir Christopher Frayling, Rector of the Royal College of Art and
Chairman of the Arts Council
Refreshments served from 6.15pm

http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk

Ever since the silent era, the makers of feature films have been
fascinated by the museum - as scene of crime, as setting for
supernatural happenings (often associated in some way with ancient
Egypt), as repository of forbidden knowledge, as sacred space or as a
lover's lane with display cases. Writers on museums have seldom taken
note of these recurring film sequences - or of the insights they can
provide into public 'readings' of museums. When Andre Malraux wrote of
"the museum without walls" in the late 1940s, he was referring to
artbooks with full colour reproductions - and the impact they were
likely to have on public understanding of art history. This lecture,
illustrated with film clips and slides, which takes one particular
museum as its case study, will expand the idea of "museum without walls"
well beyond artbooks into the realms and images of popular culture.

Sir Christopher Frayling is Rector of the Royal College of Art and also
Professor of Cultural History at the College. In addition, he is
Chairman of Arts Council England. Christopher is well-known as an
historian, critic and an award-winning broadcaster, with his work
appearing regularly on network radio and television. He has published
thirteen books and numerous articles on the arts, popular culture,
design and the history of ideas, the most recent being his vast
biography of the Italian film maker Sergio Leone. He is a Trustee of the
Victoria and Albert Museum and was until recently Chairman of the Design
Council, a Trustee of the Design Museum, Chairman of the Crafts Study
Centre and a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Board.

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