Kenneth Clark - English author, museum director, broadcaster, and art historian
Clark's elder son, Alan Clark, became a prominent Conservative MP and was a writer-historian and celebrated diarist.
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Also broadcast in the US on PBS in 1969, Civilisation was successful on both sides of the Atlantic, gaining Clark an international profile.
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In 1970, the Irish national newspaper TV critics honoured Clark with a Jacob's Award for Civilisation.
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The couple had three children: Alan, in 1928, and twins Colette (known as Celly) and Colin in 1932.
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Her husband introduced her to London society figures, many of whom sat for her, Dame Edith Evans, Dame Beryl Grey, Dorothy Tutin, Siân Phillips, Emlyn Williams, Sir Kenneth Clark, John Pope-Hennessy and Professor F. Brown, Head of the Slade School of Art.
The success of this series led to other authored documentaries being produced, including The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski's partial refutation of Kenneth Clark's thesis that the major driving force of cultural evolution was the arts, not the sciences.