Most Popular Books by Kenneth Clark

"Dr. Clark, social psychologist, college professor, a Black man who lived in Harlem for forty years and who has recently been associated with its problems from the top level of Haryou, takes the role of ''involved observer'' to approach the combined problems of the confined African American and the slum. The ghetto he analyzes here is the three-and-one-half square miles containing 232, 792 people that make up Harlem (excluding Spanish Harlem). He examines its social dynamics (unemployment and menial jobs result in family instability); psychology (the Black man has a difficult time asserting his manhood in face of white supremacy); pathology--chronic, self-perpetuating (as the influence of gangs has declined, that of drug addiction has increased); schools--separate but unequal (the ''cultural deprivation approach'' is seductive: if students were expected to learn and so taught they would progress); the power structure (the effective exercise of power is severely crippled by the inexperience of its own political leaders). The strategy for change must be based on the understanding that the Black America''s problems are essentially American and on the empathy of outsiders. Dr. Clark tempers his aims with the re-assurance that ''in contemporary society, no one [Black] or white can be totally free of prejudice''; yet each race needs the other. Most interesting here: the insight into the psycho-social dilemmas of African Americans, the Black response to the wide spectrum of leadership embodied in Adam Clayton Powell and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."--Review in Kirkus, 1965 (lightly edited).

Kenneth Clark''s sweeping narrative looks at how Western Europe evolved in the wake of the collapse of the Roman Empire, to produce the ideas, books, buildings, works of art and great individuals that make up our civilisation. The author takes us from Iona in the ninth century to France in the twelfth, from Florence to Urbino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland and America. Against these historical backgrounds he sketches an extraordinary cast of characters -- the men and women who gave new energy to civilisation and expanded our understanding of the world and of ourselves. He also highlights the works of genius they produced -- in architecture, sculpture and painting, in philosophy, poetry and music, and in science and engineering, from Raphael''s School of Athens to the bridges of Brunel.

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.

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

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

Discusses the styles, works, and lives of thirteen painters, sculptors, and architects from David to Rodin to illuminate a major period in the history of art.

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.

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.

A history of life-giving beliefs and ideas made visible and audible through tthe medium of art___

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.

Kenneth Clark''s first volume of autobiography.

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