Another Part of the Wood: A Self-Portrait - Hardcover

Another Part of the Wood. A Self Portrait.

Zustand: USED_VERYGOOD. XI, 287 p., numerous ill. A good and clean copy. - It is characteristic of Kenneth Clark that he was taught to love the poetry of Burns not by a professor of Eng. Lit. but by Harry Lauder. He was brought up in a world as far removed as possible from the intellectual and academic life of the time. Shooting parties, life on the Riviera, gambling, yachting and music halls were the background of his life. But from the age of seven he discovered the faculty of recognising and enjoying works of art. From then on this was the basis of his life. This autobiography begins with a spirited description of what he calls the godless, disgraceful, overfed social order that we call Edwardian which he observed without discontent or disapproval. It goes on to describe how this exceptional boy developed his aesthetic faculties and supported them by scholarship and experience so that at the age of thirty he was appointed Director of the National Gallery. - Wikipedia: Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark OM CH KCB FBA (13 July 1903 21 May 1983) was a British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster. After running two important art galleries in the 1930s and 1940s, he came to wider public notice on television, presenting a succession of programmes on the arts during the 1950s and 1960s, culminating in the Civilisation series in 1969. ISBN 0719529794 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Original cloth with dust jacket, privately wrapped in foil. Artikel-Nr. 1232701

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