Kenneth Clark: life, art and civilisation

"K"

Aesthete's progress

Edwardian childhood

Winchester

Oxford

Florence, and love

BB

The gothic revival

The Italian exhibition

The Ashmolean

The National Gallery

Appointment and trustees

By royal command

The Great Clerk Room

Running the Gallery

Lecturing and Leonardo

Director versus staff

The listener and the artist

World War II

Packing up: "Bury them in the bowels of the earth"

The National Gallery at war

The Ministry of Information

Artists at war

The home front

The best for the most

Arts Panjandrum

Writing and lecturing

Upper terrace

Town and country

The naked and the nude

Television

Inventing independent television: "a vital vulgarity"

The early television programmes

Saltwood 1953-68

Saltwood: the private man

Public man: the 1960s

Civilisation

Civilisation: the background

The making of Civilisation

Civilisation and its discontents

Apotheosis: Lord Clark of Civilisation

Lord Clark of Civilisation

Lord Clark of suburbia

Another part of the wood

Last years and Nolwen

Epilogue.