• critical theory
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 24.5 x 17 cm.
  • 359 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0060907878

Civilisation

Kenneth Clark

description

"In this remarkable volume illuminated by hundreds of carefully selcted illustrations, Kenneth Clark explains Western civilisation through its works of art, its buildings, books and great individuals. A bestseller since publication in 1970, Civilisation contains 286 illustrations, including 48 pages in full color. From Iona in the ninth century to France in the twelfth, from Florence to Ubrino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland and America...against these historical backgrounds Kenneth Clark shows us not only the men who gave energy to civilisation and expanded our undrstanding of the world and ourselves but also the works of genius in architecture, sculpture, and painting, in philosophy, poetry and music, in science and in engineering, which these men produced. As a book, as a film, and on television, Civilisation has created extraordinary interest in people of all ages since it first appeared." -- from back wrapper. Includes list of illustrations and index.

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