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Civilisation di Kenneth Clark
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Civilisation (originale 1969; edizione 2005)

di Kenneth Clark (Autore)

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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.… (altro)
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Titolo:Civilisation
Autori:Kenneth Clark (Autore)
Info:John Murray Pubs Ltd (2005), 272 pages
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Civilisation: A Personal View di Kenneth Clark (1969)

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 Folio Society Devotees: Civilisation by Kenneth Clark22 non letti / 22LesMiserables, Novembre 2023

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Ha Ha! In 1999 I wrote about this book: "Chapter 1 and I am already offended! Clark is so dated! What small mind wrote,about, "the negro imagination," that created the African mask, or about "the late antique world, full of meaninless rituals, mystery religious, that destroyed self-confidence." *** I went on to discover "stuff I liked," and I made a few notes. but I clearly did not complete this book. I don't think I ever even saw the companion television show. I know Clark remains a big name in social sciences, so perhaps I will see what he did in later years. ( )
  Kim.Sasso | Aug 27, 2023 |
Great dialog on art...good timelines... ( )
  Brightman | May 12, 2019 |
The Art history is conveniently arranged, and the illustrations are tasteful. He's not casting his definition of "Civilization" widely enough to suit me. I much prefer the twelve volume effort by Will and Ariel Durant. He believes that Civilization is best curated by a very narrow set of editors, such as himself. I don't think a view of such a narrow set of criteria defines what could be defined as a Civilization" by the human race's past history. ( )
  DinadansFriend | Jan 30, 2018 |
Dit boek is meer dan 50 jaar oud, en slechts de papieren weergave van een uitgebreide BBC-TV-reeks. Ik zag als jong broekje een herhaling uit de jaren '70, en was erg onder de indruk van de eruditie van Clark en zijn uitgesproken visie. Zoveel jaren later is die visie natuurlijk erg verouderd; alleen al de eng-westerse focus zou vandaag helemaal uit den boze zijn; bovendien waagt Clark zich helemaal niet aan de twintigste eeuwse kunst, al hebben we wel de indruk dat zijn mening daarover niet zo flatterend is. Je vindt in het boek ook uitlatingen waar we vandaag beschaamd voor zouden zijn (over de drang van Duitsers tot hysterie, bijvoorbeeld). Maar dat neemt niet weg dat het toch een hele krachttoer blijft om al die verschillende kunstgenres in één omvattende visie te krijgen. Bovendien was het ook leuk om te zien hoe Clark het begrip "beschaving" erg omschrijvend benadert en er zich niet van af maakt met een ogenschijnlijk simpele definitie. Tenslotte kan ik het niet laten zijn slotregels te herhalen, een geloofsbelijdenis die onverminderd geldingskracht heeft: “I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.” ( )
  bookomaniac | May 19, 2015 |
This is a dreadful book from an excellent TV series.
If one is producing an art book, one would be disappointed that the illustrations were all going to be black and white. When this was compounded by the decision to stick all the pictures in a block in the middle of the book, then one raises the white flag meekly: but wait, there's just one more twist of the knife, the original TV script is not going to be changed for the new literary format.
Oh dear! ( )
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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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