| Edition |
First United States edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 478 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Colophon. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-459) 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. |
| Summary |
This work is a biography on Kenneth Clark, British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians. |
| Subject |
Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983.
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Art historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Museum directors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983. (OCoLC)fst00052645
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Art historians. (OCoLC)fst00815554
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780385351171 (hardback) |
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0385351178 (hardback) |
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9780385351164 (ebook) |
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