John Piper Seaton Delaval,” by John Piper 1941Oil on canvas laid on wood; Presented by Sir Kenneth Clark (later Lord Clark of Saltwood) through the Contemporary Art Society 1946, via Tate “Looking for ...
The 13 one-hour TV films in which English art historian, arts administrator, and writer Kenneth Clark historically narrates a “personal view” of the history of Western civilization were first shown in ...
Kenneth Clark (1903-1983) thought of himself as a writer, which indeed he was, producing numerous fine works of art history ranging from Rembrandt to the Italian Renaissance to the nude and two of the ...
When she was a mere sprout of 14, Mary Beard tuned into the first episode of Sir Kenneth Clark’s famous BBC documentary, Civilisation, and felt a “slight tingle.” “It had never struck me,” she wrote ...
Northumbria University, Newcastle provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Fifty years after Kenneth Clark’s cultural landmark was first broadcast, BBC2 has set a date for the launch of ...
In 1970, in a review of Kenneth Clark’s Civilization, John Russell, art critic of the New York Times, grandly prophesied that "the civilization that Clark describes is one which has had its day and ...
He was a great man. He was not a nice man, not even a good man. But then, greatness may not dwell that often with goodness and kindness in the same person. Kenneth Clark was a great man, the most ...
“Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation” by James Stourton. (--/Knopf) In his review of James Stourton's biography of Kenneth Clark, Michael Dirda wrote that "in later life 'K' — as everyone called ...
Not in its entirety at any rate – only snippets on YouTube, and, more recently, excerpts at Tate Britain’s current exhibition, where highlights from his many televisual essays from the Sixties are ...
Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House ...
Not in its entirety at any rate – only snippets on YouTube, and, more recently, excerpts at Tate Britain’s current exhibition, where highlights from his many televisual essays from the Sixties are ...
Kenneth Clark, patron, collector, art historian, and broadcasting impresario best known for his pioneering 1969 TV series Civilisation – the first to bring the art of the 20th century to a mass ...
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