Kenneth “Ken” Clark Gordon, age 86, of The Villages, Florida, passed away peacefully on May 15, 2025 surrounded by family. Born to Gilbert and Leona Gordon on July 1, 1938, Ken’s life was ...

In “Civilisation,” his own survey of the high points of Western history, the art critic Kenneth Clark concluded that great periods are built on great confidence — a nation’s confidence in ...

Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at Papal Rome in the early 16th century. Three great artists, Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci, are the ...

The BBC has sparked debate about the merits of the epochal 1969 documentary Civilisation—conceived by Kenneth Clark—by posting a new segment by Mary Beard on its iPlayer catch-up service in ...

So suggested Kenneth Clark, looking towards Notre Dame at the start of Civilisation, his magisterial televisual guide through Western art, architecture, and philosophy. From the ruins of a ravaged ...

Kenneth Clark traces the reawakening of European civilisation in the 12th century from its first manifestations in Cluny Abbey to the Basilica of St Denis and, finally, to its high point, the ...

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Kenneth Clark Shaw passed into new life on Friday, July 7, 2023. He was born on September 18, 1932, to Julian and Mary (Nickel) in Cincinnati, Ohio. His elementary and high school education was in ...

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 Clark as he expounded, with ...

Travel writer, television host and Edmonds resident Rick Steves recently finished a two-year-long project — producing a six-hour public television miniseries called “Rick Steves Art of Europe ...