Civilization. Clark K.

In 1969, the BBC channel presented the audience with the documentary series Civilization. Kenneth Clark's personal gaze. ” The skeptics were puzzled: who, in fact, in the 60s could interest the views on the history of the Western civilization of Lord Clark-the historian of art, without a little peer of the century, a scientific aesthet, a lover of tweed costumes and the owner of his own castle (in which there was even a TV) ? The skeptics turned out to be shared: the series broke all the records of popularity, laid the foundation for the genre, and Clark, with its refined speech and aristocratic pronunciation, became the favorite of the public.

In the same 1969, the collection of scripts of the series was published in the form of a book, immediately The bestseller, translated into many languages ​​to this day regularly reprinted both in England and in other countries. Now, after years, it is even more obvious that, thanks to his truly phenomenal erudition, Kenneth Clark coped with an incredible complexity of the task. Masterly, he easily transfers his spectators - and readers - from the country to the country, from the era in the era, as if slices of mosaic, inspirely placed in places of ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great people, creating an intricate and fascinating picture of “Clark civilization”.