Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation. The author takes us from Iona in the ninth century to France in the twelfth, from Florence to Urbino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland and America. Against these historical backgrounds he sketches an extraordinary cast of characters -- the men and women who gave new energy to civilisation and ...
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Kenneth Clark's sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation. The author takes us from Iona in the ninth century to France in the twelfth, from Florence to Urbino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland and America. Against these historical backgrounds he sketches an extraordinary cast of characters -- the men and women who gave new energy to civilisation and expanded our understanding of the world and of ourselves. He also highlights the works of genius they produced -- in architecture, sculpture and painting, in philosophy, poetry and music, and in science and engineering, from Raphael's School of Athens to the bridges of Brunel.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 250grams, ISBN: 9780719568442.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.
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Publisher:
British Broadcasting Corporation and John Murray
Published:
1973
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
9594906765
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Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Light Creasing on Front Cover; Laminate Lightly Peeling on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. SYNOPSIS: The enormous television audience and reading public that have been delighted by Kenneth Clark's clarity and lucidity in covering and interpreting so wide a span of time and so versatile a range of ideas, are in no doubt at all about the value and importance of this book, for which the author revised the scripts of the thirteen television programmes and of which there were six large printings of the First Edition during its first year of publication, apart from its many translated editions. Kenneth Clark emphasises that this is not a history of the arts but of the life-giving beliefs and ideas made visible and audible through the medium of art. It is a "personal" view that becomes a marvellously exciting and stimulating search into the sources and development of Western Civilisation. As Kenneth Clark takes us from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present day, he does not attempt to give a complete record but concentrates on crucial civilising episodes-from Iona in the ninth century to France in the twelfth, from Florence to Urbino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland and America. Against these historical backgrounds he shows us both the men who gave new energy to civilisation and expanded our understanding of the world and ourselves, and the works of genius, in architecture, sculpture and painting, in philosophy, poetry and music, in science and in engineering, which they produced. In relating works of art to the history of civilisation Kenneth Clark's perception of their quality, and the spirit they embody, enables him to let us see a painting, a building or a piece of sculpture, whether it is something we know, like Raphael's School of Athens, or something we might not have thought of considering a work of art, like a Brunel bridge, with the excitement of new discovery.
