Kenneth Clark

Meryle Secrest, Secrest. Fromm International, $11.95 (310pp) ISBN 978-0-88064-056-5

When he died in 1983, Clark left behind a legacy of writings on art, the most memorable of which are his study of Rembrandt, his Landscape into Art, The Nude and the TV-related bestseller Civilisation. Secrest here provides a ""full-scale, sensitive and revealingly intimate portrait.'' (May)

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