It is hard to recapture the radical and exciting nature of early neo-classical painting for contemporary audiences ; it now strikes even those writers favourably inclined to it as " insipid " and " almost entirely uninteresting to us "— some of Kenneth Clark's comments on Anton Raphael Mengs ' ambitious Parnassus at the Villa Albani, by the artist who his friend Winckelmann described as " the greatest artist of his own, and perhaps of later times ".

A product of one of the artist's youthful sojourns to Italy, and in Kenneth Clark's words " as free as the most vigorous John Constable | Constable ".

Intended as a series of " personal view " documentaries in the manner of Kenneth Clark's 1969 series Civilisation, the series received acclaim for Bronowski's highly informed but eloquently simple analysis, his long unscripted monologues and its extensive location shoots.

It was commissioned specifically to complement Kenneth Clark's Civilisation ( 1969 ), in which Clark argued that art reflected and was informed by the major driving forces in cultural evolution.

This project was intended to parallel art historian Kenneth Clark's earlier " personal view " series Civilisation ( 1969 ) which had covered cultural history.

During the course of the series Attenborough, following the format established by Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man ( both series which he designed and produced as director of BBC2 ), travels the globe in order to trace the story of the evolution of life on the planet.

A spirited portrait of daily life at the Berenson " court " at I Tatti during the 1920s may be found in Sir Kenneth Clark's 1974 memoir, Another Part of the Wood.

However, Astley showed his diversity by writing the music for Sir Kenneth Clark's celebrated 1969 BBC documentary series Civilisation, and scoring several British Transport Films including Diesel Train Ride ( 1959 ), Broad Waterways ( 1959 / 60 ) and The Signal Engineers ( 1962 ).

The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon.

In Europe, as John Ruskin said, and Sir Kenneth Clark confirmed, landscape painting was the " chief artistic creation of the nineteenth century ", and " the dominant art ", with the result that in the following period people were " apt to assume that the appreciation of natural beauty and the painting of landscape is a normal and enduring part of our spiritual activity " In Clark's analysis, underlying European ways to convert the complexity of landscape to an idea were four fundamental approaches: the acceptance of descriptive symbols, a curiosity about the facts of nature, the creation of fantasy to allay deep-rooted fears of nature, and the belief in a Golden Age of harmony and order, which might be retrieved.

The film series " Was intended as a Christian version of Sir Kenneth Clark's popular Civilization series on public television.

Many well-known people since their deaths have been discovered to enjoy spankings for erotic purposes or emotional gratification including renowned British Army officer T. E. Lawrence (" Lawrence of Arabia "), influential English theatre critic Kenneth Tynan, TV broadcaster Frank Bough, and English writer John Mortimer.

* Saltwood Castle was the ancestral home of Lord Deedes and later home to Lord Kenneth Clark, the art historian, and his son Alan Clark, Conservative MP, military historian and renowned diarist.

The community members are Professor Kenneth Young and Mr. Dennis Chan, renowned artist and designer.

The Big Clock is a 1948 film noir thriller directed by John Farrow, adapted by renowned novelist-screenwriter Jonathan Latimer from the novel of the same name by Kenneth Fearing.

Though UFO sightings have occurred throughout recorded history, modern interest in them dates from World War II ( see foo fighter ), further fueled in the late 1940s by Kenneth Arnold's report of a close encounter, which led to coining of the term flying saucer, and the Roswell UFO Incident.

In 2000, at the age of 81, she appeared Off Broadway in Kenneth Lonergan ’ s The Waverly Gallery and received more awards for a single performance in a single season than any actress in theatre history, including The Drama Desk Award, The Lucille Lortel Award, The Drama League Award and The Outer Critics Circle Award.

He served in the House longer than anyone else in Tennessee history ( though Jimmy Quillen, who eventually succeeded him as the 1st District's congressman, holds the record for the longest unbroken tenure in the House for a Tennessee congressman ), and only Kenneth McKellar served in both houses longer.

Great names in the history of dummy making include Frank Marshall ( the Chicago creator of Bergen's Charlie McCarthy, Nelson's Danny O ' Day, and Winchell's Jerry Mahoney ), Theo Mack and Son ( Mack carved Charlie McCarthy's head ), Revello Petee, Kenneth Spencer, David Strassman, Cecil Gough, Jeff Dunham, and Glen & George McElroy.

* Oral history interview with J. Kenneth Lee by Eugene Pfaff, circa 1980

* Oral history interview with J. Kenneth Lee by Kathleen Hoke, June 6, 1990

The triumphs of Richardson and Olivier ( the latter famously as Richard III and Oedipus ), described by The Times as the greatest in the Old Vic's history and by Kenneth Tynan as " matchless ", led the governors of the Old Vic to fear that the two stars overshadowed the company.

" Rohl's most vocal critic has been Professor Kenneth Kitchen, one of the leading experts on biblical history and the author of the standard work on the conventional chronology of the Egyptian Third Intermediate Period, the period most directly affected by the New Chronology's redating of the 19th to 25th dynasties.

However, Wilson's view is not supported by Kenneth Kitchen who states: " That the great topographical list of Shoshenq I at Karnak is a document of the greatest possible value for the history and nature of his campaign against Judah and Israel is now clearly established beyond all dispute, thanks to the labours expended on that list by a series of scholars.

During the 1970s, Dr. Kenneth Rock, a professor of history at Colorado State University, collected sixty oral histories of German Russian immigrants and their descendants as part of the " Germans from Russia in Colorado " Study Project.

At Chicago, she undertook studies in philosophy, ancient history and literature alongside her other requirements ( Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, Peter von Blanckenhagen and Kenneth Burke were among her lecturers ) and graduated with an A. B.

At the 1986 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, its organizers, Kenneth Feder, Luanne Hudson and Francis Harrold decided to hold a symposium to examine pseudoarchaeological beliefs from a variety of academic standpoints, including archaeology, physical anthropology, sociology, history and psychology.

* Aizawa, Kenneth, " Connectionism and artificial intelligence: history and philosophical interpretation ", Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Volume 4, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 295-313

One of the students at the first summer institute in its second year 1935 was Kenneth Lee Pike ( 1912 – 2000 ), who was to become the foremost figure in the history of SIL.

* Kenneth Warren Chase, Firearms: a global history to 1700 ( 2003 ) ISBN 978-0-521-82274-9

The most notable exception was a 1974 study of the volcano's glacial and volcanic history carried out by Kenneth G. Sutton.

The story was basically a review of previous accounts, and a substantive published account would not appear until 1947, when Chess Review published articles by Kenneth Harkness and Jack Straley Battell that amounted to a comprehensive history and description of the Turk, complete with new diagrams that synthesized information from previous publications.

* Kenneth Hahn, youngest pilot in the history of the Port

In recent years, however, scholars such as Kenneth Pomeranz have challenged this view, although the revisionist approach to world history has been met with criticism for systematically " downplaying " European achievements.

This branch of the family descends from Sir Roderick Mackenzie, whose elder brother Kenneth Mackenzie was created Lord Mackenzie of Kintail in 1609 and was the father of Colin Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth ( see the Earl of Seaforth for further history of this branch of the family ).

A special citation is awarded to Kenneth Roberts for his historical novels which have long contributed to the creation of greater interest in our early American history.

During the 1960s and 1970s, he presented the series Open House, Picture Parade, Points of View, the leading literary quiz Take it or Leave it, Ask the Family, BBC3 – including the discussion during which Kenneth Tynan became the first person to say " fuck " on British television ( Robinson told Tynan that this was " an easy way to make history ") – and Call My Bluff.

* Civilisation ( TV series ), a documentary series by Kenneth Clark outlining the history of Western society

Civilisation — in full, Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark — is a television documentary series outlining the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages.

* Kenneth Clark ( 1902 – 1983 ), British art historian ; creator of the series Civilisation

* A Guide to Civilisation: The Kenneth Clark Films on the Cultural Life of Western Man ( 1970 ), Introduction and notes by Richard McLanathan, New York: Time-Life.

One of Attenborough's main achievements as Controller of BBC 2 was to commission Civilisation ( 1969 ), a major series presented by the respected art historian Kenneth Clark.

Art historian Kenneth Clark is credited with writing about the Ponts des Arts in his book Civilisation:

Kenneth Clark, Civilisation ( 1969 ).

* 1969 – The first TV tie-in, Kenneth Clark ’ s Civilisation, published

Kenneth Clark ( 1903 – 1983 ) was an English art historian who wrote and presented BBC TV series Civilisation.