Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation is routinely cited as the gold standard of arts broadcasting, a peerless televisual feat that will never be surpassed, although Mary Beard, Simon Schama and David ...

W hen 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 ...

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 ...

“Looking for Civilization” is an exhibition devoted to Kenneth Clark (1903–83), a great British scholar, connoiseur, collector, and, above all, patron. Clark greatly helped contemporary British ...

Kenneth Clark at Notre-Dame de Paris during the production of episode one of Civilisation 'The Skin of our Teeth'. Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark began on 23 February 1969. The ...

Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation does full justice to the remarkable life of a man whose whole existence was centred on art – as a collector, museum director, curator, writer, patron ...

Overall, the effect is brilliantly light, clean, airy, and accordingly – despite the building’s age – up-to-date (the new roof timbers, for instance, are protected by sprinklers).

In his peroration, Hall revealed plans for a digital‑age remix of Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation – the 1969 series commissioned by David Attenborough for BBC2 in ultra-modern colour.

Starting in spring 1969 Americans were introduced to Kenneth Clark, a Scottish art historian who headed up this “mini-series” in which he would explain what civilization was, and meant, to him.

They also unavoidably suggest the handing over of a baton from Kenneth Clark’s 1969 series Civilisation, whose name the new series self-consciously adopts and, by adding that final S, subtly yet ...