Kenneth Clark
4) The nude
Author
Pub. Date
1956.
Description
"Clark traces the history of [the nude] through its two major periods, antiquity and the renaissance, also addressing the medieval and modern period's alternative geometries."--Cover.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Art historian Sir Kenneth Clark presents an epic examination of Western European culture, defining what he considers to be the crucial phases of its development. This lavish series was hailed as a masterpiece when it was broadcast in 1969.
Disc One: Program 1: "Skin of our Teeth" looks at the Dark Ages; the six-hundred years following the fall of the Roman Empire. / Program 2: "Great Thaw" traces the re-awakening of European civilization in the...