Kenneth Clark vs. André Maurois
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Kenneth Clark
1903 – 1983
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark was a British art historian, museum director and broadcaster. His expertise covered a wide range of artists and periods, but he is particularly associated with Italian Renaissance art, most of all that of Leonardo da Vinci. After running two art galleries in the 1930s and 1940s, he came to wider public notice on television, presenting a succession of programmes on the arts from the 1950s to the 1970s, the largest and best known being the Civilisation series in 1969.
"It remains true that Michelangelo's intensely personal use of the nude greatly altered its character. He changed it from a means of embodying ideas to a means o…"
André Maurois
1885 – 1967
André Maurois was a French author.
"The head of a free nation's government must direct towards obscure and shifting objectives the actions of a group of people who are not compelled to obey him by…"
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