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Biography of Kenneth M. Clark
Name: Kenneth M. Clark
Birth Date: July 13, 1903
Death Date: 1983
Place of Birth: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: art historian, museum administrator
Kenneth M. Clark
During his long and varied career, English art historian Kenneth M. Clark (1903-1983) served as director of the British National Gallery and of Britain's first commercial television network. He also helped establish government patronage of the arts.Kenneth Mackenzie Clark was born in London on July 13, 1903, the only child of parents he described as members of the Edwardian "idle rich." While his parents spent the family fortune (amassed by Clark's Scottish great-great grandfather, the inventor of the cotton spool), Clark developed into a lonely, serious young man with a passion for art and complete confidence in his judgment. Lacking a mentor at home or school, he groped his way toward knowledge, winning a scholarship to Oxford. There, he gave up early hopes of becoming a painter to become an aesthete. "...Nothing could destroy me," he said, "as long as I could enjoy works of art and for 'enjoy' read 'enjoy': not …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…productivity. He died shortly before his 80th birthday, leaving behind two sons and a daughter. Further Reading For two different accounts of the life and work of Kenneth Clark, see Clark's two volumes of autobiography, Another Part of the Wood (1974) and The Other Half (1977). Both are charming, witty, and readable, if less than complete, portraits. Meryle Secrest's Kenneth Clark: A Biography (1984) fills in many of the gaps. Many of Clark's books are widely available, including The Gothic Revival (1929), Leonardo da Vinci (1939 and 1952), Florentine Painting: the Fifteenth Century (1945), Landscape Into Art (1950), Piero della Francesca (1951), Moments of Vision (1954), The Nude (1956), and Looking at Pictures (1960).Clark, Kenneth, Another part of the wood: a self portrait, New York: Harper & Row, 1974.Clark, Kenneth, The other half: a self portrait, New York: Harper & Row, 1977.Secrest, Meryle, Kenneth Clark: a biography, New York: Fromm International Pub. Corp.: Distributed to the trade by Kampmann & Co., 1984.
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