Kenneth Clark ... published the year after Mr. Clark’s death by Meryle Secrest, who knew her subject, but whose book looks even more trivial now in the light of this magisterial, definitive ...

When an excellent biography of Clark was published a year ago—Kenneth ... light on classicism. Incredibly, Spain scarcely rates a mention. “Other scholars could make mincemeat of [Civilisation ...

Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation is routinely cited as the ... have been obsessed by light.” Referring to Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man drawing, he confides, to winning effect: “Mathematically ...

Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation does full justice to the ... one of the first things Clark did was to install electric light, thereby making it possible actually to see the pictures ...

The light in question now floods Room 41 ... In his peroration, Hall revealed plans for a digital‑age remix of Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation – the 1969 series commissioned by David ...

“Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation.” The King persuaded Clark to take the job, and in the years to come Clark went on to take several other high-level positions that he believed would ...

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 ...

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.

Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark was one of those rare truth-in-advertising titles. Starting in spring 1969 Americans were introduced to Kenneth Clark, a Scottish art historian who ...