{"product_id":"kenneth-clark-james-stourton-9780525435358","title":"Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation","description":"Throughout his brilliant, multifaceted career as a scholar and patron of the arts, Kenneth Clark, later Lord Clark of Saltwood worked tirelessly to bring art to the people. Born in 1903 to a wealthy family and educated at Oxford, Clark became the youngest-ever director of the National Gallery at age twenty-nine. In 1939, as war with Hitler loomed, he arranged for the Gallery's paintings to be hidden in slate mines in Wales to keep them safe. When the air raids began, he held concerts at the Gallery to keep up the spirits of Londoners. Later, at the height of the Cold War, his program \u003ci\u003eCivilisation\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly conveyed a message of humanism and hope--wrapped inside a thirteen-part history lesson on Western art--to a remarkably wide audience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA man of contradictions, he was an elitist who believed to his core that access to art was \"the right of every man.\" With \u003ci\u003eKenneth Clark\u003c\/i\u003e, James Stourton gives us the definitive biography of an unlikely popularizer--and renews Clark's vision of art as a powerful force against the threat of chaos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Stourton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0525435352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525435358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d","brand":"James Stourton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43920086794495,"sku":"9780525435358","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e57cc9a5-bb15-4e82-9105-495227933bd1.jpg?v=1680813529","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kenneth-clark-james-stourton-9780525435358","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}