New Releases by Kenneth Clark

A personally compelling introduction to Leonardo''s genius, a classic monograph of Leonardo''s art and his development.

What is it like to dive in the murky depths of the ocean?How do you raise the wreck of a ship or aircraft?Here, Kenneth Clark relives his diving experiences from training in the 1950s, to being awarded the Gold Sub Aqua Medal by the Duke of Edinburgh.His achievements include helping raise the Gitana from Loch Rannoch in 1978. At the time, it was the heaviest wreck ever salvaged by amateur divers.

From the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Moore, this work surveys the ever-changing fashions in what has constituted the ideal nude as a basis of humanist form.

Many people think that greedy lenders intent on victimizing unsuspecting borrowers caused the mortgage crisis, saddling them with loans they couldn''t afford and taking their houses through foreclosure for later sale at a profit. If that''s what you think, you''re dead wrong. It was a complex melding of events and opportunities, an economic "perfect storm" that came within a hair''s breadth of toppling the American financial system and the economies of numerous other countries. And it didn''t have to happen. In this book, Kenneth Clark, a longtime mortgage banker and financial industry insider, talks about the real root causes of the mortgage and housing meltdown and how the government''s failures and Wall Street''s greed enabled the collapse. But they were by no means alone. The seeds of destruction were sown decades ago by individuals and entities that had no idea of what they would ultimately be helping to bring about.

History of art / art & design styles.

Abstract: In a laboratory setting, people viewed simple visual stimuli and chose the categories to which they belonged. A computer tracked people''s choices, confidence ratings, and response times (RTs) when either all alternatives available for a choice were reasonable or one alternative was very unlikely. While the objective probability of an alternative in a set being correct decreases with the introduction of another alternative, I expected that inclusion of an implausible alternative would increase confidence that the alternative chosen was correct. I further suspected that RT would be constant despite changes in the types of alternatives available. Accuracy, confidence, and RT were predominantly unchanged by manipulating alternatives in the choice set. This contradicted two of my hypotheses and the hypotheses of other investigators in this area of research. A final experiment focusing just on confidence obtained more contradictory results, suggesting that people process all combinations of alternatives in a set similarly.

Tiles are a beautiful form of ceramic that lend themselves to an extraordinary diversity of uses and treatments. In this outstanding overview, Kenneth Clark, a distinguished tile designer and maker, introduces readers to their creation, ornamentation, and use. Tile making using earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, and paper clay is fully described as are the decorative techniques, like painting, screen printing, and sgraffito. The work of leading tile designers is also examined, along with their approaches and applications. To complete the book, Clark offers practical information on the uses of tile, including floors, walls, roofs, fireplaces, murals, and swimming pools; details on how to repair tiles; and advice on how to protect and care for them. Written by an expert, and with 280 color photos, The Tile is sure to captivate anyone interested in learning or appreciating the skills of this age-old craft.

Discussion of five masters of humanistic architecture, painting and sculpture in fifteenth century Italy - Alberti, Donatello, Uccello, Mantegna and Botticelli.

In this comprehensive guide to pottery Kenneth Clark explains with the help of practical and informative text together with step-by-step illustrations and examples of finished work the various aspects of pottery. These include techniques of wedge making, pinching, coiling, slab building, throwing, joining, moulding and turning. In addition Clark gives full details on techniques of decoration, tools and equipment, kilns and firing, glazes, pigments and stains finishing with a full glossary. He also suggests ways in which potters can extend their techniques of production to meet the needs of changing markets and conditions, whilst trying to keep a balance between the work of the artist innovator and the production potter or ceramicist.

Rejecting the tenet of modern art asserting that masterpieces do not exist, Clark explores those qualities which combine with the indefinable touch of genius to produce a work of art that truly represents the human spirit

In this richly illustrated book, Lord Clark traces the changes in the western ideal of feminine beauty from Egyptian art of the second millennium BC down to the movie screens of the present day.

Numerous pen-and-ink drawings inspired by the sheep meadow just outside Moore''s studio and originally presented to the artist''s daughter are reproduced, portraying sheep in a natural environment with both charm and feeling

This study of a great artist is both a perceptive picture of the man and an acute analysis of some of his most famous works. It shows the human qualities united with the depth of mind that is revealed only after a long contemplation of his paintings, etchings, and drawings.

Contains primary source material.