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Kay Dick (essay date 19 October 1974)

SOURCE: Dick, Kay. “The White Rabbit of the Arts.” Spectator 233 (19 October 1974): 500.

[In the following essay, Dick claims a distinct enjoyment in Kenneth Clark's autobiography, Another Part of the Wood: A Self Portrait, however, in the end she refuses to be seduced by his charm.]

I have nearly been seduced—by Kenneth. Which means that I have been reading with concentrated and fascinated interest Sir Kenneth Clark's first chapter of autobiography, Another Part of the Wood, to be continued in succeeding serials. I can now fully appreciate how this charmingly informed art-man seduced a whole nation with his television performances. Not enjoying the dubious benefits of owning a television, I had previously not wholly understood how Sir Kenneth persuaded so many semi-literates that art could be thrilling, although I had read several of his books. It is a mystery no longer:...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. W. H. Godfrey (review date April 1930)
   2. Derek Hill (review date 4 November 1949)
   3. Clive Bell (review date 26 November 1949)
   4. Anne Fremantle (review date 16 June 1950)
   5. Adrian Stokes (review date 30 March 1951)
   6. Bernard Denvir (review date June 1951)
   7. Atlantic (review date November 1960)
   8. Christopher Salvesen (review date 25 January 1963)
   9. Richard Beale (review date 15 October 1966)
   10. Richard Luckett (review date 22 December 1973)
   11. Kay Dick (essay date 19 October 1974)
   12. Jan Morris (essay date 15 October 1977)
   13. Publishers Weekly (review date 24 April 1978)
   14. Robert Cahn (review date 1 May 1978)
   15. Eleanor Riley (review date 1 December 1980)
   16. Lynda Nead (essay date 1992)
   17. Charles Moore (review date 16 October 1993)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright