The Other Half: A Self-Portrait
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Some tanning / foxing on spine. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure. Usual shelf-wear.
One of the twentieth century's most celebrated art historians and cultural critics, Kenneth Clark, chronicles the second half of his remarkable life in this candid and deeply personal memoir. The Other Half: A Self-Portrait picks up where his earlier autobiography left off, drawing readers into the rarefied world of museums, royalty, artists, and intellectuals that Clark inhabited with extraordinary ease and authority — from his directorship of the National Gallery to his legendary television series Civilisation. Clark writes with the wit, elegance, and precision that defined his public voice, yet in these pages he also reveals the private doubts, spiritual yearnings, and complex relationships that lay beneath the polished surface. A portrait of a man as much as an era, this memoir offers an unparalleled insider's account of twentieth-century cultural life that leaves the reader wondering how one man could stand at the very centre of it all — and still feel, perhaps, that something essential remained just out of reach.
Author: Kenneth Clark
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Harper & Row, Publishers
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Some tanning / foxing on spine. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure. Usual shelf-wear.
One of the twentieth century's most celebrated art historians and cultural critics, Kenneth Clark, chronicles the second half of his remarkable life in this candid and deeply personal memoir. The Other Half: A Self-Portrait picks up where his earlier autobiography left off, drawing readers into the rarefied world of museums, royalty, artists, and intellectuals that Clark inhabited with extraordinary ease and authority — from his directorship of the National Gallery to his legendary television series Civilisation. Clark writes with the wit, elegance, and precision that defined his public voice, yet in these pages he also reveals the private doubts, spiritual yearnings, and complex relationships that lay beneath the polished surface. A portrait of a man as much as an era, this memoir offers an unparalleled insider's account of twentieth-century cultural life that leaves the reader wondering how one man could stand at the very centre of it all — and still feel, perhaps, that something essential remained just out of reach.