TY - BOOK AU - Stourton,James TI - Kenneth Clark: life, art and civilisation SN - 9780385351171 AV - N7483.C55 S76 2016 U1 - 709.2 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Clark, Kenneth, KW - Art historians KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - fast KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-459) and index; "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 ER -