Kenneth Clark

A history of animals in art.

This is the First U.S. Edition (hardcover) of "The Other Half " by Kenneth Clark, which is the second volume of his autobiography and the sequel to "Another Part of the Wood." In this volume Clark takes us from the hazardous evacuation of the National Gallery pictures to the safety of a slate quarry in Wales at the beginning of World War II through to the calm reflection at his lifetime of accomplishment. Lord Clark evokes the spirit of wartime London and recounts his activities as an amateur civil servant, professor of art history, writer/lecturer in US and Europe , Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and, finally, as a television performer - his greatest achievement, "Civilisation" stands as an original and enduring landmark.

Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.Joseph decides to take his mistress and son, together with a few friends, to stay in a cabin in deepest Wales for the weekend - with absolutely disastrous results. Beryl Bainbridge's gift for deadpan dialogue and spare narrative, and her darkly comic vision of the world, are all in evidence in this early novel.

In 1900, an American of taste was a European in exile; in 2000, a trendy European is a frustrated American--or one waiting for a visa. 0Régis Debray explores America's global cultural ascendancy in this provocative and witty analysis of our contemporary condition. Whereas Europe once foregrounded the importance of time and writing, America is a civilization of spectacle and kinetics, blind to the tragic complexities of human life. A measure of America's success is how its jargon has been adopted by European languages, but there is much more than that to the States' infiltration into all aspects of modern life. 0For Debray, the dominance of American civilization is a historical fait accompli. Yet he envisions a sanctuary for the best of Europe modelled on Vienna at the cusp of the twentieth century, where art and literature flowered in the rich soil of a decaying empire. For decades to come, Europe can still offer a rich cultural seedbed. "Some will call it decadence," writes Debray, "others liberation. Why not both?"

The Entombment (Titian) - Las Meninas (Velasquez) - The Descent from the Cross (Rogier Van Der Weyden) - The Crusaders Entering Constantinople (Delacroix) - The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (Raphael) - L'Enseigne de Gersaint (Watteau) - The Espolio (El Greco) - A painter in his Studio (Vermeer) - Study for The Leaping Horse (Constable) - The Third of May, 1808 (Goya) - Une Baignade, Asnieres (Seurat) - The Snowstorm (Turner) - The Virgin with St. Anne (Leonarda da Vinci) - L'Atelier du Peintre (Courbet) - The Nativity (Botticelli) - Self-Portrait (Rembrandt).

What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six "killer applications"?that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy.