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About this book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BERGER PRIZE FOR BRITISH ART HISTORY 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017
A SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR
AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR
From his time as Bernard Berenson's protégé to being the Keeper of the Western Art at 27 and his appointment as the youngest-ever director of the National Gallery, Kenneth Clark displayed precocious genius. No voice has exercised so much power and influence over the arts in Britain as Clark's. A formidable aesthete, his coterie included John Betjeman, Winston Churchill, Margot Fonteyn, E.M. Forster, Vivien Leigh, the Queen Mother and Henry Moore. Hidden from view, however, was his wife Jane's alcoholism and his own philandering. In James Stourton's dazzling biography, Clark is shown as a man who conveyed the profound beauty and importance of art, architecture and civilisation for generations to come.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 ‘K’
- 2 Edwardian Childhood
- 3 Winchester
- 4 Oxford
- 5 Florence, and Love
- 6 BB
- 7 The Gothic Revival
- 8 The Italian Exhibition
- 9 The Ashmolean
- 10 Appointment and Trustees
- 11 By Royal Command
- 12 The Great Clark Boom
- 13 Running the Gallery
- 14 Lecturing and Leonardo
- 15 Director versus Staff
- 16 The Listener and the Artists
- 17 Packing Up: ‘Bury Them in the Bowels of the Earth’
- 18 The National Gallery at War
- 19 The Ministry of Information
- 20 Artists at War
- 21 The Home Front
- 22 The Best for the Most
- 23 Writing and Lecturing
- 24 Upper Terrace
- 25 Town and Country
- 26 The Naked and the Nude
- 27 Inventing Independent Television: ‘A Vital Vulgarity’
- 28 The Early Television Programmes
- 29 Saltwood: The Private Man
- 30 Public Man: The 1960s
- 31 Civilisation: The Background
- 32 The Making of Civilisation
- 33 Civilisation and its Discontents
- 34 Apotheosis: Lord Clark of Civilisation
- 35 Lord Clark of Suburbia
- 36 Another Part of the Wood
- 37 Last Years and Nolwen
- Epilogue
- Appendix I: The Clark Papers
- Appendix II: ‘Suddenly People are Curious About Clark Again’
- Picture Section
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Also by James Stourton
- About the Publisher
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