Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie - Clive Bell (review date 26 November 1949)
Clive Bell (review date 26 November 1949)
SOURCE: Bell, Clive. Review of Landscape into Art, by Kenneth Clark. New Statesman and Nation 38 (26 November 1949): 616-18.
[In the following review, Bell proclaims Clark to be the best man to teach the English youth to care for the arts and praises his book, Landscape into Art.]
Skillfully manipulated as they have been, these lectures [Landscape into Art]—the first Sir Kenneth Clark has given as Slade Professor at Oxford—remain lectures; and according to Sir Kenneth “the publication of lectures is a well-known form of literary suicide.” All I can say is, the corpse is doing wonderfully well. A good lecture on painting is almost bound to be discursive: unexplored theories and novel comparisons start into the lecturer's mind as he contemplates a slide with which, perhaps, he is illustrating his central theme; and, for a moment, the theme is lost. The new Slade Professor has a...
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