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 ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

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.

“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's thirteen-part 1969 television series, Civilisation, established him as a globally admired figure. Clark was prescient in making this… Kenneth Clark: Life, Art And Civilisation | WAMC ...

There are certain places that capture in three dimensions the spirit of Western civilisation. Notre-Dame de Paris – the medieval cathedral overlooking the Seine at the eastern end of the Île de ...

Lord Kenneth Clark was the producer and host of the BBC’s “Civilisation,” the surprisingly popular nineteen-sixties miniseries that explored Western art and culture.

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.