Kenneth Clark

by James Stourton

  Andrews, Julian, The Shelter Drawings of Henry Moore, London 2002

  Annan, Noel, ‘Thomas Carlyle’, in Founders and Followers, lectures on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the London Library, 1992

  Attenborough, Sir David, Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster, London 2003

  Batchelor, John, Mervyn Peake: A Biographical and Critical Exploration, London 1974

  Berger, John, A Painter of Our Time, London 1958

  Berger, John, Ways of Seeing, London 1972

  Berthoud, Roger, The Life of Graham Sutherland, London 1982

  Berthoud, Roger, The Life of Henry Moore, London 1987

  Bosman, Suzanne, The National Gallery in Wartime, London 2008

  Bowness, Alan (Introduction), British Contemporary Art 1910–1990, The Contemporary Art Society 1991

  Bowra, C.M., Memories, London 1966

  Breakell, Sue, ‘The Exercise of a Peculiar Art-Skill’: Kenneth Clark’s Design Advocacy and the Council of Industrial Design, unpublished at the time of going to press

  Briggs, Asa, The BBC: The First Fifty Years, Oxford 1985

  Brivati, Brian, Hugh Gaitskell, London 1996

  Brown, Oliver, Exhibition: The Memoirs of Oliver Brown, London 1968

  Browse, Lillian, Duchess of Cork Street: The Autobiography of an Art Dealer, London 1999

  Cain, John, The BBC: 70 Years of Broadcasting, London 1992

  Carpenter, Humphrey, Benjamin Britten, London 1992

  Carter, Miranda, Anthony Blunt: His Lives, London 2001

  Chapman, James, War and Film, Trowbridge 2008

  Checkland, Sarah-Jane, Ben Nicholson: The Vicious Circles of His Life and Art, London 2000

  Clark, Alan (ed.), Lee of Fareham, A Good Innings: The Private Papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham, London 1974

  Clark, Alan, Diaries: In Power 1983–1992, London 1993

  Clark, Alan, Diaries: Into Politics 1972–1982, London 2000

  Clark, Colin, Younger Brother, Younger Son: A Memoir, London 1997

  Cohen, Rachel, Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade, Yale 2013

  Conlin, Jonathan, The Nation’s Mantelpiece: A History of the National Gallery, London 2006

  Conlin, Jonathan, Civilisation, London 2009

  Connolly, Cyril, A Romantic Friendship: The Letters of Cyril Connolly to Noel Blakiston, London 1975

  Cooper, Douglas, The Work of Graham Sutherland, London 1961

  Coultass, Clive, Images for Battle: British Film and the Second World War 1939–1945, London 1989

  Cumming, Robert (ed.), My Dear BB: The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925–1959, Yale 2015

  Day-Lewis, Sean, Cecil Day-Lewis: An English Literary Life, London 1980

  Drogheda, Lord, Double Harness: Memoirs, London 1978

  Drummond, John, Tainted by Experience: A Life in the Arts, London 2000

  Elsom, John and Tomalin, Nicholas, The History of the National Theatre, London 1978

  Firth, J.D’E., Rendall of Winchester, Oxford 1954

  Fisher, Clive, Cyril Connolly: A Nostalgic Life, London 1995

  Forster, E.M., Two Cheers for Democracy, London 1951

  Foss, Brian, War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain 1939–1945, Yale 2007

  Geddes Poole, Andrea, Stewards of the Nation’s Art, Toronto 2010

  Gill, Michael, Growing into War, Gloucestershire 2005

  Glasgow, Mary, The Nineteen Hundreds: A Diary in Retrospect, Oxford 1986

  Grigson, Geoffrey, Recollections: Mainly of Writers and Artists, London 1984

  Haffenden, John, William Empson: Vol. I: Among the Mandarins, Oxford 2005

  Hardy, Henry and Holmes, Jennifer (eds), Isaiah Berlin, Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960, London 2009

  Hardy, Henry and Pottle, Mark (eds), Isaiah Berlin, Building: Letters 1960–1975, London 2013

  Harries, Meirion and Harries, Susie, The War Artists, London 1983

  Harries, Susie, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life, London 2011

  Harris, Alexandra, Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper, London 2010

  Harris, Neil, Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience, Chicago 2013

  Hart-Davis, Duff, King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War – The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles, London 2006

  Hayes, John, The Art of Graham Sutherland, Oxford 1980

  Hess, Myra, et al., The National Gallery Concerts, London 1944

  Hillier, Bevis, John Betjeman: New Fame, New Love, London 2002

  Hillier, Bevis, John Betjeman: The Bonus of Laughter, London 2004

  Hinks, Roger, The Gymnasium of the Mind: The Journals of Roger Hinks 1933–1963, Salisbury 1984

  Howard, Anthony, Crossman: The Pursuit of Power, London 1990

  Kelley, Pete (ed.), From Osborne House to Wheatfen Broad: Memoirs of Phyllis Ellis, Norfolk 2011

  Kenneth Clark, Moments of Vision: In Honour of the Centenary of His Birth, 1903–1983. With an introduction and notes by Michael Delon, privately printed, Roselle, New Jersey, 2003

  Knox, James, Cartoons and Coronets: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster, London 2008

  Lees-Milne, James, Ancestral Voices: Diaries 1942–1943, London 1975

  Lees-Milne, James, Prophesying Peace: Diaries 1944–1945, London 1977

  Lees-Milne, James, Caves of Ice: Diaries 1946–1947, London 1983

  Lees-Milne, James, Midway on the Waves: Diaries 1953–1972, London 1985

  Lees-Milne, James, Ancient as the Hills: Diaries 1973–1974, London 1997

  Lees-Milne, James, Through Wood and Dale: Diaries 1975–1978, London 2001

  Lees-Milne, James, Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries 1979–1981, London 2003

  Lees-Milne, James, Holy Dread: Diaries 1982–1984, London 2003

  Lees-Milne, James, The Milk of Paradise: Diaries 1993–1997, London 2005

  Lewis, Jeremy, Cyril Connolly: A Life, London 1997

  Lewis, Jeremy, Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane, London 2005

  Lowe, John, The Warden: A Portrait of John Sparrow, London 1998

  Lycett Green, Candida (ed.), John Betjeman: Letters, Vols I and II, London 1994 and 1995

  McGuire, J. Patrick and Woodham, M. Jonathan (eds), Design and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain: Britain Can Make It Exhibition of 1946, London 1998

  McLaine, Ian, Ministry of Morale: Home Front Morale and the Ministry of Information in World War II, London 1979

  Mariano, Nicky, Forty Years with Berenson, London 1966

  Meyers, Jeffrey, The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis, London 1980

  Mitchell, Leslie, Maurice Bowra: A Life, New York 2009

  Morey, Dom Adrian, David Knowles, London 1979

  Mostyn-Owen, William, ‘Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark: A Personal View’, in Joseph Connors and Louis A. Waldman (eds), Bernard Berenson: Formation and Heritage, I Tatti, The Harvard University Center 2014, pp.231–47

  Nicolson, Nigel (ed.), Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1930–1939, London 1966

  Nicolson, Nigel (ed.), Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1939–1945, London 1967

  Nicolson, Nigel (ed.), Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1945–1962, London 1968

  Partridge, Frances, Good Company: Diaries 1967–1970, London 1994

  Partridge, Frances, Ups and Downs: Diaries 1972–1975, London 2001

  Pierse, Simon, ‘Sir Kenneth Clark: Deus ex Machina of Australian Art’, in David R. Marshall (ed.), Europe and Australia, Melbourne 2009

  Pilkington Committee, Report of the Committee on Broadcasting, 1960, HMSO, London 1962

  Pope-Hennessy, John, Learning to Look, New York 1991

  Pope-Hennessy, John, edited by Kaiser Walter and Michael Mallon, On Artists and Art Historians: Selected Book Reviews of John Pope-Hennessy, Florence 1994

  Potter, Julian, Mary Potter: A Life of Painting, London 1998

  Pronay, Nichola
s, ‘The Land of Promise: The Projection of Peace Aims in Britain’, in K.R.M. Short (ed.), Film and Radio Propaganda in World War II, London 1983

  Pronay, Nicholas and Spring, D.W. (eds), Propaganda, Politics and Film 1918–1945, London 1982

  Pryce-Jones, David, Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir, London 1983

  Pryce-Jones, Alan, The Bonus of Laughter, London 1987

  Quennell, Peter, The Marble Foot: An Autobiography 1905–1938, London 1976

  Quennell, Peter (ed.), A Lonely Business: A Self Portrait of James Pope-Hennessy, London 1981

  Rodgers, William T. (ed.), Hugh Gaitskell 1906–1963, London 1964

  Rosenthal, Daniel, The National Theatre Story, London 2013

  Rothenstein, John, Brave Day, Hideous Night, London 1966

  Rothenstein, John, Time’s Thievish Progress: Autobiography Vol. III, London 1970

  Samuels, Ernest, Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur, Harvard 1979

  Samuels, Ernest, Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend, Harvard 1987

  Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Gallery: A Short History, London 2009

  Saunders, Gill, Mellor, David and Wright, Patrick, Recording Britain: A Pictorial Domesday of Pre-War Britain, London 1990

  Secrest, Meryle, Kenneth Clark: A Biography, London 1984

  Secrest, Meryle, Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject, Toronto 2007

  Sendall, Bernard, Independent Television in Britain, Vol. I: Origin and Foundation 1946–62, London 1982, and Vol. II: Expansion and Change 1958–68, London 1983

  Shone, Richard and Stonard, John-Paul (eds), The Books that Shaped Art History, Chapter 8: ‘Kenneth Clark’s The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art, 1956’, London 2013

  Sinclair, Andrew, Arts and Cultures: The History of the 50 Years of the Arts Council of Great Britain, London 1995

  Slythe, Margaret, Kenneth Clark, Lord Clark of Saltwood: Guides to the Published Work of Art Historians, No. 1, revised edition, Bournemouth 1971

  Spalding, Frances, The Tate: A History, London 1998

  Spalding, Frances, John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art, Oxford 2009

  Stansky, Peter, Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil, Yale 2003

  Stephens, Chris and Stonard, John-Paul (eds), Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain 2014

  Strachey, Barbara and Samuels, Jayne (eds), Mary Berenson: A Self-Portrait from Her Letters and Diaries, London 1983

  Strong, Roy, The Spirit of Britain: A Narrative History of the Arts, London 1999

  Sutton, Denys (ed.), Letters of Roger Fry: Vols I and II, London 1972

  Syson, Luke with Keith, Larry, Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, exhibition catalogue, London 2011

  Trewin, Ion, Alan Clark: The Biography, London 2009

  Tribble, Edwin (ed.), A Chime of Words: The Letters of Logan Pearsall Smith, New York 1984

  Vickers, Hugo (ed.), The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries, London 2002

  Vickers, Hugo (ed.), Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries, London 2003

  Walker, John, Self-Portrait with Donors: Confessions of an Art Collector, Boston 1974

  Walker, John, Arts TV: A History of Arts Television in Britain, London 1993

  Watkin, David, The Rise of Architectural History, London 1980

  White, Eric W., The Arts Council of Great Britain, London 1975

  Williams, Philip M., Hugh Gaitskell: A Political Biography, London 1979

  Zwemmer, Books from the Library of Kenneth Clark, London 1989

  Selected Lectures, Articles, Broadcasts and Obituaries About Kenneth Clark

  Amory, Mark, ‘Clark the Magnificent’, Sunday Times Magazine, 6 October 1974, p.33

  Cannadine, David, ‘Kenneth Clark: From National Gallery to National Icon’, Linbury Lecture, National Gallery, 2002

  Coleman, Terry, ‘Lord Clark’, Guardian Weekend, 26 November 1977

  Conlin, Jonathan, ‘Oil and Old Masters: How Britain Lost the Gulbenkian’, Times Literary Supplement, 31 October 2003; see also Conlin (2006, pp.169–75)

  Conlin, Jonathan, ‘Good Looking’, Art Quarterly, Spring 2012, pp.53–4

  Conlin, Jonathan, ‘An Irresponsible Flow of Images: Berger, Clark and the Art of Television, 1958–1988’, lecture given to the University of Southampton, 2013

  Delon, Michael, ‘A Candid Conversation with Lord Kenneth Clark’, Daily Princetonian, Vol. CII, No.124, Wednesday 22 November 1978, p.6

  Elam, Caroline, ‘Roger Fry and the Re-Evaluation of Piero della Francesca’, New York 2004

  Gombrich, E.H., ‘Review of Piero’, Burlington Magazine, June 1952, pp.176–8

  Hammer, Martin, ‘Kenneth Clark and the Death of Painting’, Tate Papers, Issue 20, 19 November 2013

  Harris, Colin, ‘Kenneth Clark at the Ashmolean’, The Ashmolean, Spring 2006, pp.20–2, re ‘Civilisation’ (book review), The Connoisseur 175 (703), pp.62–3

  Hilton, T., ‘Civilisation’ (book review), Studio International 179 (920), March 1970, pp.125–6

  Kemp, Martin, Introduction to Folio Society edition of Clark’s Leonardo da Vinci, London 2005

  ‘Kenneth Clark at 70’, Burlington Magazine, No. 844, Col. CXV, July 1973, p.415

  Lepine, Ayla, ‘The Persistence of Medievalism: Kenneth Clark and the Gothic Revival’, Architectural History, Vol. LVII, 2014, pp.323–56

  Levey, Michael, Obituary of Kenneth Clark, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. LXX, 1984

  McLean, F.C., ‘From the Few to the Many’, in Telecommunications: The Next Ten Years, The Granada Guildhall Lectures, 1966

  Panayotova, Stella, ‘From Toronto to Cambridge’ (on Lord Lee), University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. LXXVII, No. 2, Spring 2008

  Petschek, Willa, ‘Views of a Civilized Man’, New York Times, May 1976

  Quennell, Peter, ‘Kenneth Clark: A Man for All Media’, Saturday Review, 28 August 1971, pp.10–12, 31

  Read, Herbert, ‘Ben Nicholson and the Future of Painting’, The Listener, No. 352, 9 October 1935, p.604

  Rosen, Charles, New York Review of Books, 7 May 1970

  Rumley, Peter T.J., ‘Kenneth Clark: A Civilising Influence’, SPAB Magazine, Summer 2014, pp.54–8

  Russell, John, ‘A Guiding Star of our Civilisation’, Sunday Times, 8 July 1973

  Sotheby’s Sale of Paintings and Works of Art from the Collections of the late Lord Clark of Saltwood OM CH CBE, Wednesday 27 June–5 July 1984 (three parts: 27 June, 3 June, 5 July 1984)

  Sparrow, John, ‘Civilisation’, The Listener, 8 May 1969, pp.629–31

  Townsend, Christopher, ‘Civilisation’, Art Monthly, July–August 2014, No. 378, pp.8–11

  Williams, R., ‘Television: Personal Relief Time’, The Listener, No. 81, 20 March 1969

  Wyver, John, ‘From the Parthenon’, Art Monthly, No. 75, April 1984, pp.22–5

  Radio and Television

  K: Kenneth Clark 1903–1983, television documentary produced by John Wyver, 1993

  K: The Civilised World of Kenneth Clark, part of the series Life Story, written and presented by Peggy Reynolds and produced by Sarah Brown, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 3 July 1997

  Lord Clark: Servant of Civilisation, presented by Miranda Carter and produced by Thomas Morris, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 3 July 2003

  Seeing Through the Tweed, presented by Richard Weight, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Archive on 4, 28 November 2009

  Sir Kenneth Clark: Portrait of a Civilised Man, directed by Kate Misrahi, broadcast on BBC 2, The Culture Show, 31 May 2014

  Selected Books and Pamphlets by Kenneth Clark

  (With Lord Balniel) A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January to March 1930, Oxford 1931

  A Catalogue of the Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, 2 vols, Cambridge University Press 1935

  ‘The Futu
re of Painting’, The Listener, No. 351, Wednesday 2 October 1935, pp.543–4, 578

  ‘The Art of Rouault’, The Listener, No. 354, Wednesday 23 October 1935, p.706

  One Hundred Details from Pictures in the National Gallery, London 1938

  Leonardo da Vinci, Cambridge 1939

  Florentine Painting: Fifteenth Century, London 1945

  The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form, London 1956

  Looking at Pictures, London 1960

  The Gothic Revival: An Essay in the History of Taste, London 1965

  Rembrandt and the Italian Renaissance, London 1966

  A Catalogue of the Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, 2nd edition prepared with the assistance of Carlo Pedretti, 3 vols, London 1968

  Civilisation: A Personal View, London 1969

  Piero della Francesca, London 1969

  The Romantic Rebellion, London 1973

  Landscape Into Art, London 1973

  Henry Moore: Drawings, London 1974

  An Introduction to Rembrandt, London 1978

  Feminine Beauty, London 1980

  Moments of Vision, London 1981

  The Art of Humanism, London 1983

  Selected Lectures, Articles, Introductions and Broadcasts by Kenneth Clark

  ‘On Lord Lee’s new version of Raphael’s “Holy Family with the Lamb” ’, Burlington Magazine, January 1934, p.13

  ‘Pictures Turn to Posters: the Shell-Mex Exhibition’ in Commercial Art and Industry, No. 17, June 1934, pp.65–72

  ‘Four Giorgionesque Panels’, Burlington Magazine, Vol. LXXI, No. 416, November 1937, pp.198–201

  ‘The Aesthetics of Restoration’, a lecture given at the Royal Institution, 20 May 1938

  Introduction to Roger Fry: Last Lectures, Cambridge 1939

  ‘The Artist and the Patron: Eric Newton Interviews Kenneth Clark’, The Listener, No. 580, 22 February 1940, pp.380–1

  ‘Baroque and the National Shrine’, Architectural Review, No. 559, July 1943, pp.2–12

  ‘Ornament in Modern Architecture’, Architectural Review, No. 564, December 1943, pp.147–50

  ‘Leon Battista: Alberti on Painting’, Annual Italian Lecture of the British Academy, in Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XXX, 1944

  ‘English Romantic Poets and Landscape Painting’, privately printed, London 1945 (reprinted from Vol. LXXXV of Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Philosophical Society)