The Other Half: A Self Portrait - Hardcover

The Other Half. A Self Portrait.

Zustand: Gut. XI, 287 p., numerous ill. Dust jacket rubbed, ownership note on endpaper, otherwise a good and clean copy. - Kenneth Clark's first volume of autobiography, Another Part of the Wood, was widely enjoyed for the intimate lucidity of its account of an unusual childhood and for the way the development of the author's natural instincts, both as a boy and a youth, provided an illuminating perspective on his great achievements as a man. It was also, as Michael Ratcliffe wrote in The Times, 'An immensely amusing memoir . . . rich in deliciously dry tales of the monsters at work and play . all told with perfect brevity and wit'. This is the eagerly awaited sequel. Once again it is an enlightening record of a full and varied life beginning with the hazardous evacuation of the National Gallery pictures to the safety of a slate quarry in Wales at the beginning of the war, and ending with a calm look at a lifetime of accomplishment which has many implicit comments on the future. In between Lord Clark ranges widely in filling his canvas. He evokes the spirit of war-time London, describing his part in starting the National Gallery lunch-time concerts: he reveals his activities as an amateur civil servant with some quick and masterly sketches of powerful colleagues, as a professor of art history, as a writer and lecturer, as Chairman of the Arts Council and, finally, as a television performer, to which experience his great achievement, Civilisation, stands as an original and enduring landmark. - 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 0719534321 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Original cloth with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1232702

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