Kenneth Clark illuminates the Dark Ages, the six centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire (AD400 to AD1000). 2. The Great Thaw The Gothic reawakening of European civilisation in the ...

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 ...

The first episode (“The Skin of Our Teeth ... But perhaps what is most amazing about Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation is how well it has aged: the show went to VHS and Betamax, and is now ...

Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation is routinely cited as the ... given its reputation, when its 13 episodes were first broadcast on BBC Two in 1969. Commissioned by David Attenborough and shot on ...

“What is civilization?” Clark asks himself in the first ... right to put the title of his most famous TV show in the subtitle of his biography. Kenneth Clark, more than anything else, will ...

The chapters on the making of Civilisation are particularly engrossing. All in all, this is one of the best and most enjoyable biographies of the year. Kenneth Clark examining masterpieces in ...

To the millions who watched the landmark TV series Civilisation, Kenneth Clark was the nation’s authority on culture. But behind the scenes, the art historian turned to a children’s ...

Kenneth Clark in Civilisation Courtesy of the BBC Archives ... But Mary Beard’s first programme (episode two) comes closer to a direct critique of Clark. Called How Do We Look?, ...

The subtitle of Civilisation, A Personal View by Kenneth Clark ... s heroic line of Western geniuses, but arts TV programmes invariably bear Clark’s stamp: a person in front of a sumptuous ...

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 ...