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About this book
SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR
The astonishing life of Kenneth Clark – the greatest British art historian of his time. As writer and presenter of the 13-part TV series Civilisation he was responsible for the greatest syntheses of art, music, literature and thought ever made – ‘a contribution to civilisation itself’.
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History of ArtTable 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