My dear BB ... : the letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-1959

My dear BB ... : the letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-1959 /

In 1925, the 22-year-old Kenneth Clark (1903-1983) and the legendary art critic and historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) met in Italy. From that moment, they began a correspondence that lasted until Berenson's death at age 94. This book makes available, for the first time, the complete corres...

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Author / Contributor: Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 (Author)
Other authors / contributors: Cumming, Robert, 1945- (Editor), Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983
Imprint: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Berenson, Bernard, > 1865-1959 > Correspondence.
Clark, Kenneth, > 1903-1983 > Correspondence.
Berenson, Bernard, > 1865-1959.
Clark, Kenneth, > 1903-1983.
Clark, Kenneth McKenzie, > Baron Clark, > 1903-1983.
Art historians > Correspondence.
Art historians.
Konsthistoriker.
Personal correspondence.
Acquisition Notes:Gift of Anne d'Harnoncourt and Joseph Rishel
Table of Contents:
  • Hopes and expectations, 1925-1926
  • Life at I Tatti, the lists and the Florentine drawings, marriage and parenthood, 1927-1929
  • The exhibition of Italian art, Italian politics, Windsor drawings, 1929-1931
  • Oxford, the Ashmolean, 1931-1933
  • The National Gallery, surveyor of the King's pictures, predicaments and crises, 1933-1939
  • War and separations, 1939-1945
  • Picking up the threads, 1945-1947
  • Reading and writing, talking and travelling, 1948-1953
  • Television, journalism, Altamura, conoscing, 1953-1958
  • Farewell, 1959.

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