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Title Kenneth Clark [electronic resource] : life, art and Civilisation / James Stourton.
Author Stourton, James, author.
Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
©2016
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Note "This is a Borzoi book published by Aldred A. Knopf"--Colophon.
Electronic book.
Summary This work is a biography on Kenneth Clark, British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians.
Contents "K" -- Aesthete's progress -- Edwardian childhood -- Winchester -- Oxford -- Florence, and love -- BB -- The gothic revival -- The Italian exhibition -- The Ashmolean -- The National Gallery -- Appointment and trustees -- By royal command -- The Great Clerk Room -- Running the Gallery -- Lecturing and Leonardo -- Director versus staff -- The listener and the artist -- World War II -- Packing up: "Bury them in the bowels of the earth" -- The National Gallery at war -- The Ministry of Information -- Artists at war -- The home front -- The best for the most -- Arts Panjandrum -- Writing and lecturing -- Upper terrace -- Town and country -- The naked and the nude -- Television -- Inventing independent television: "a vital vulgarity" -- The early television programmes -- Saltwood 1953-68 -- Saltwood: the private man -- Public man: the 1960s -- Civilisation -- Civilisation: the background -- The making of Civilisation -- Civilisation and its discontents -- Apotheosis: Lord Clark of Civilisation -- Lord Clark of Civilisation -- Lord Clark of suburbia -- Another part of the wood -- Last years and Nolwen.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. New York Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2016 Available via World Wide Web.
Subject Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983.
Art historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Museum directors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
ART / History / Contemporary (1945-).
ART / European.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects,Photographers.
Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983. (OCoLC)fst00052645
Art historians. (OCoLC)fst00815554
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Genre Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Biographies.
Electronic books.
eBook.
Added Author OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
ISBN 9780385351164 ODE (electronic bk.)
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