Volume 14, Number 9 · May 7, 1970
TV Guide
By Charles Rosen
Civilization
by Kenneth Clark
Harper & Row, 359 pp., $15.00
Kenneth Clark's guided tour of European art is the greatest success of haute-vulgarisation since Malraux's Voices of Silence. Malraux was possessive, prophetic—about the past as well as the future—and authoritarian (Randall Jarrell remarked that his motto was 'Vici, vici, vici'). Clark is gracious, informal, and paternalistic. Where Malraux attempted to dominate, and even to manipulate, his readers, Clark seeks to persuade, to reassure, and to seduce them into an immediate sympathy with the works of art he displays.
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