Best Selling Books by Kenneth Clark

"The Italian drawings at Windsor Castle".

Before it was over, they fired him from the little schoolhouse at which he had taught devotedly for ten years. And they fired his wife and two of his sisters and a niece. And they threatened him with bodily harm. And they sued him on trumped-up charges and convicted him in a kangaroo court and left him with a judgment that denied him credit from any bank. And they burned his house to the ground while the fire department stood around watching the flames consume the night. And they stoned the church at which he pastored. And fired shotguns at him out of the dark. But he was not Job, and so he fired back and called the police, who did not come and kept not coming. Then he fled, driving north at eighty-five miles an hour over country roads, until he was across the state line. Soon after, they burned his church to the ground and charged him, for having shot back that night, with felonious assault with a deadly weapon, and so he became an official fugitive from justice. In time, the governor of his state announced they would not pursue this minister who had caused all the trouble, and said of him: Good riddance.

History of art / art & design styles.

Selections from the writings of the influential British critic cover nature, art, architecture, economics, and social reform, and are accompanied by background information and comments

Retro 2016 ; Literaturverz. S. 210

Clark gives an account of his early years as an interpreter of works of art.

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