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Kenneth Clark
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The son of rich parents, Clark was introduced to the arts at an early age. Among his early influences were the writings of John Ruskin, which instilled in him the belief that everyone should have access to great art. After coming under the influence of the art experts Bernard Berenson and Roger Fry, Clark was appointed director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford aged twenty-seven, and three years later he was put in charge of Britain's National Gallery. His twelve years there saw the gallery transformed to make it accessible and inviting to a wider public. During the Second World War, when the collection was moved from London for safe keeping, Clark made the building available for a series of daily concerts which proved a celebrated morale booster during the Blitz.
After the war, and three years as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford, Clark surprised many by accepting the chairmanship of the UK's first commercial television network. Once the service had been successfully launched he agreed to write and present programmes about the arts. These established him as a household name in Britain, and he was asked to create the first colour series about the arts, ''Civilisation'', first broadcast in 1969 in Britain and in many other countries soon afterwards.
Among many honours, Clark was knighted at the unusually young age of thirty-five, and three decades later was made a life peer shortly before the first transmission of ''Civilisation''. Three decades after his death, Clark was celebrated in an exhibition at Tate Britain in London, prompting a reappraisal of his career by a new generation of critics and historians. Opinions varied about his aesthetic judgment, particularly in attributing paintings to old masters, but his skill as a writer and his enthusiasm for popularising the arts were widely recognised. Both the BBC and the Tate described him in retrospect as one of the most influential figures in British art of the twentieth century. Provided by Wikipedia
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Landscape into art / by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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The Gothic revival : an essay in the history of taste. by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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Civilisation : a personal view / by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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John Constable : The hay wain, in the National gallery, London / by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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Piero della Francesca / by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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Animals and men : their relationship as reflected in Western art from prehistory to the present day / by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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Another part of the wood : a self portrait / by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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The art of humanism / by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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The other half : a self portrait / by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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Landscape into art. by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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Looking at pictures. by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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Feminine beauty / by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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The nude : a study of ideal art / by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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The nude : a study in ideal form / by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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Another part of the wood : a self portrait / by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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Looking at pictures. by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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Moments of vision & other essays / by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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The Gothic revival : an essay in the history of taste. by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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Piero della Francesca / by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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Ruskin at Oxford : inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford, 14 November 1946. by Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
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