Kenneth Clark's Civilisation reviewed - archive, 19 May 1969
19 May 1969: Visually this has been a thoroughly exciting series. All manner of art objects, paintings, carvings, manuscripts, buildings, have been brought before us“Civilisation,” at least Sir Kenneth Clark’s baker’s dozen of it, came to an end last night on BBC-2. For 13 weeks Sir Kenneth has been delivering a weekly Sunday night (with a Friday repeat) lecture on art and architecture, literature and history – all those various outputs of man which are vaguely lump
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