Civilisation—in full, Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark—is a 1969 British television documentary series written and presented by the art historian Kenneth Clark.
Title card from Episode 1, "The Skin of Our Teeth"
First page of the Gospel of St Matthew in the Lindisfarne Gospels
Chartres Cathedral
Botticelli's The Three Graces
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark was an English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster. After running two important art galleries in the 1930s and 1940s, he came to wider public notice on television, presenting a succession of programmes on the arts during the 1950s and 1960s, culminating in the Civilisation series in 1969.
Clark photographed in 1934 by Howard Coster
Clark as a teenager photographed by Herbert Lambert, c. 1918
Clark painted by Charles Sims, c.1911
John Ruskin, whose writings inspired the young Clark