Kenneth Clark

Person · Open Library

Born

1903

Died

1983

Works

217

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Film & TV

Acting · London, England, UK

Known for

• Make Me Up — self2018
• Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words — Self (archive footage)2011
• In the Beginning — Narrator1975
• Civilisation — Himself - Host1969

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1932-11-15

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

70

Total plays

112

Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark, OM, CH, KCB, FBA (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was a British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians of his generation, writing a series of books that appealed to a wide public, while remaining serious contributions to scholarship. In 1969, he achieved an international popular presence as the writer, producer, and presenter of the BBC Television series, Civilisation, which <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kenneth+Clark"

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method

   · 2001 · cited 163,200x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,474x

3. Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.

   · 1988 · cited 29,278x

4. Differential Evolution – A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for global Optimization over Continuous Spaces

   · 1997 · cited 24,720x

5. Analyzing real-time PCR data by the comparative CT method

   · 2008 · cited 23,553x

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Quotes

• “In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.”
• “Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.”
• “Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak of it as a drama. It is the most literary of all great pictures, one of the few of which the effect may largely be conveyed — can even be enhanced — by description.”
• “To Leonardo a landscape, like a human being, was part of a vast machine, to be understood part by part and, if possible, in the whole. Rocks were not simply decorative silhouettes. They were part of the earth's bones, with an anatomy of their own, caused by some remote seismic upheaval. Clouds were not random curls of the brush, drawn by some celestial artist, but were the congregation of tiny drops formed from the evaporation of the sea, and soon would pour back their rain into the rivers.”
• “Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.”
• “The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost every detail the body is not the shape that art has led us to believe it should be.”

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Key facts

Born

Kenneth Mackenzie Clark , ( 1903-07-13 ) 13 July 1903, Mayfair , London, England

Died

21 May 1983 (1983-05-21) (aged 79), Hythe, Kent , England

Alma mater

Winchester College , Trinity College, Oxford

Occupations

Art historian Museum director Broadcaster Author

Spouses

Elizabeth Winifred "Jane" Martin, ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1927 ; died 1976 ) ​ Nolwen de Janzé-Rice, ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1977 ) ​

Children

3, including Alan and Colin

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