Contents
170 Naturalism/modernism: a future for figurative painting/John Clark
174 Consensus painting and the Royal Academy since 1945/Andrew Brighton
177 Peter Downsbrough: two pipes, two lines
181 Art education and success/Clive Ashwin
183 Beckett & others & art: a system/Peter Gidal
187 An oil conference as an art event?/Peter Cook
Editor/Peter Townsend
Managing Director/Brian Rushton
Assistant Editors/John McEwen, Irena Oliver
Editorial Secretary/Cherry Jaquet
Art Direction/Malcolm Lauder
Advertisement Manager/Martin Rewcastle
Production/Lyndon Haywood
Contributing Editors/Dore Ashton (New York),
Jean Clay (Paris), Frank Whitford, Charles Harrison,
Tim Hilton, John Elderfield
Editorial Advisory Committee:
JP Hodin (International relations)
Alan Bowness, Andrew Forge, David Thompson,
Joseph Rykwert, John Golding
Publishers/Michael Spens, D Thomas Bergen (USA)
Studio International, November 1974, Volume 188 Number 971. Cover: specially designed for this issue by David Hockney.