via Tate “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 ...

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 ...

The subtitle of Civilisation, A Personal View by Kenneth Clark ... in its reflection of Clark’s passions and prejudices, so it’s useful to know where this great pillar of our culture was ...

Kenneth Clark’s ... pairs.” “Great movements in the arts, like revolutions, don’t last for more than about 15 years.” “All the greatest exponents of civilisation, from Dante to Goethe ...

The British art historian Kenneth Clark ... that the great art we’re being shown matters, gives the series a rare and subtle power. To watch some of the better sections of “Civilisation ...

First broadcast in 1969 across 13 episodes, Civilisation took viewers on a tour through 13 countries and back through many centuries, all guided by Lord Kenneth ... great works of art, but Clark ...

Fate seemed to smile on Kenneth Clark from his birth as the only child and heir to a great fortune derived ... have taken the title Lord Clark of Civilisation is a tribute to the BBC television ...

Following a short stint in Florence at the knee of the great ... Civilisation are particularly engrossing. All in all, this is one of the best and most enjoyable biographies of the year. Kenneth ...

Kenneth Clark had a significant impact on British art during the 20th century, he was an art historian, a former director of the National Gallery and his television series Civilisation brought art ...

The 1969 groundbreaking Civilisation ... great works of art into the homes of the viewing public. Interview with David Attenborough by Frank Gillard, 1985. BBC Oral History Collection. Sir Kenneth ...

His idly rich father, Kenneth M Clark, who’d inherited his wealth through the family textile business (Clark junior’s great-great-grandfather was ... Or, like me, watch Civilisation in its entirety.