Civilization
by Kenneth Clark · first published 1969
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…curiously good start on both music and painting, in one stroke, just spend right at 10 minutes with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7prUFflX0_E Likely a good start on art history is the 1969 TV series 'Civilization' by Kenneth Clark. There is also a book, but the video alone is fine. Actually, for some good material in history, there are some starts: Some of the best material on the history of the 20th century…
on “I Don't Want to be a Teacher Any More” ↗Expected this to be about: https://www.amazon.com/Civilisation-Kenneth-Clark/dp/0719568... Or perhaps: https://www.amazon.com/Civilization-West-Rest-Niall-Ferguson...
on “Why ‘Civilization’ is a political masterpiece” ↗There's a throwaway line somewhere in Kenneth Clark's Civilization, where he says that railing against "tyranny" (sort of gesturing back to the Roman Republic) was the rhetorical go-to of the pre-Marxist revolutionary.
on “The case against crisis-mongering” ↗…considering how one thing leads to another in history without any intention. Burke is one of several thinkers who wrote and produced educational series for the BBC: two notable others are Kenneth Clark's Civilization, which considers European art and architecture as being more than the sum of artifacts, and Jacob Bronowski's Ascent of Man that traces major epiphanies in the evolution of intellect. While some points…
on “Connections – James Burke” ↗