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Author:

Stourton, James, author.

Title:

Kenneth Clark : life, art and civilisation / James Stourton.

Edition:

First United States edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xvii, 478 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Clark, Kenneth,--1903-1983.
Art historians--Great Britain--Biography.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-459) and index.

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 -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

0385351178
9780385351171

LCCN:

2016940293

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)