Kenneth Clark - Stourton, James
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Throughout his brilliant, multifaceted career as a scholar and patron of the arts, Kenneth Clark, later Lord Clark of Saltwood worked tirelessly to bring art to the people. Born in 1903 to a wealthy family and educated at Oxford, Clark became the youngest-ever director of the National Gallery at age twenty-nine. In 1939, as war with Hitler loomed, he arranged for the Gallery's paintings to be hidden in slate mines in Wales to keep them safe. When the air raids began, he held concerts at the Gallery to keep up the spirits of Londoners. Later, at the height of the Cold War, his program…mehr

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Throughout his brilliant, multifaceted career as a scholar and patron of the arts, Kenneth Clark, later Lord Clark of Saltwood worked tirelessly to bring art to the people. Born in 1903 to a wealthy family and educated at Oxford, Clark became the youngest-ever director of the National Gallery at age twenty-nine. In 1939, as war with Hitler loomed, he arranged for the Gallery's paintings to be hidden in slate mines in Wales to keep them safe. When the air raids began, he held concerts at the Gallery to keep up the spirits of Londoners. Later, at the height of the Cold War, his program Civilisation brilliantly conveyed a message of humanism and hope--wrapped inside a thirteen-part history lesson on Western art--to a remarkably wide audience. A man of contradictions, he was an elitist who believed to his core that access to art was "the right of every man." With Kenneth Clark, James Stourton gives us the definitive biography of an unlikely popularizer--and renews Clark's vision of art as a powerful force against the threat of chaos.
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James Stourton, the former chairman of Sotheby's U.K., is the author of many books, including Great Houses of London, Great Collectors of Our Time, and British Embassies: Their Diplomatic and Architectural History. A lecturer on history, he is also a senior fellow of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London.
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WINNER OF THE CATHOLIC HERALD BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR

'Richly detailed, colourful and astute and it moves at a cracking pace ... a resplendent biography' Sunday Times

'Superb ... Stourton, a former chairman of Southeby's, is the ideal choice for Clark's official biographer and has produced an accomplished book that is scholarly, entertaining, beautifully written and sympathetic, while far from uncritical' The Times

'Stourton has written a matchless biography. His evocation of his subtle, cool and brilliant subject gives an inspiring and even heroic sense of Clark...The book is a joyous read, with a dashing, stylish pace that disguises formidable but unpretentious erudition', Richard Davenport-Hines, The Oldie

'Stourton ... has done this brilliantly, not only exploring [Clark's] gifts as author, lecturer, film-maker and champion of British art but also as public figure ... this assiduous and accomplished biography will bring about a second Great Clark Boom' Spectator

'Astutely analyses Clark's emotional and intellectual contradictions' Observer

'Delightfully readable and authoritative' Economist

'Stourton writes with a blend of passion and coolness perfectly suited to his subject and produces a picture that should satisfy the most pernickety critic', James Naughtie, Mail on Sunday

'A lithe, elegant, astute celebration', Richard Davenport-Hines, New Statesman

'An elegant and perceptive portrayal of the ultimate arts grandee', Michael Prodger, New Statesman

'Outstanding ... Stourton's great achievement is to make a unity of Clark's career ... this exemplary biography combines Clark's strengths of clarity and concision with the quality he so painfully lacked, warmth' Country Life

'James Stourton leaves no stone unturned in Kenneth Clark, his magisterial and engrossing biography, which achieves a perfect balance between Clark's complex private world and his hugely successful career', Amanda Foreman

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