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Kenneth Clark : life, art and Civilisation / James Stourton.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection N7483.C55 S76 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stourton, James, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983--Biography.
- Clark, Kenneth.
- Art historians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Art historians.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 478 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First United States edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
- Summary:
- This work is a biography on Kenneth Clark, British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians.
- Contents:
- "K"
- Aesthete's progress
- Edwardian childhood
- Winchester
- Oxford
- Florence, and love
- BB
- The gothic revival
- The Italian exhibition
- The Ashmolean
- The National Gallery
- Appointment and trustees
- By royal command
- The Great Clerk Room
- Running the Gallery
- Lecturing and Leonardo
- Director versus staff
- The listener and the artist
- World War II
- Packing up: "Bury them in the bowels of the earth"
- The National Gallery at war
- The Ministry of Information
- Artists at war
- The home front
- The best for the most
- Arts Panjandrum
- Writing and lecturing
- Upper terrace
- Town and country
- The naked and the nude
- Television
- Inventing independent television: "a vital vulgarity"
- The early television programmes
- Saltwood 1953-68
- Saltwood: the private man
- Public man: the 1960s
- Civilisation
- Civilisation: the background
- The making of Civilisation
- Civilisation and its discontents
- Apotheosis: Lord Clark of Civilisation
- Lord Clark of Civilisation
- Lord Clark of suburbia
- Another part of the wood
- Last years and Nolwen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-459) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schaffer fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780385351171
- 0385351178
- OCLC:
- 938383341
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