James Stourton in dialogue with Ayla Lepine and Scott Nethersole
James Stourton’s Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation was published to great acclaim in 2016. In dialogue with Ayla Lepine and Scott Nethersole, James will reflect on the process of writing about Clark, and on the multifaceted legacy of his subject. They will explore Clark’s career as an art historian, including his contribution to then-unfashionable subjects such as the Gothic Revival, his commitment to writing for a wide audience, and the genre-defining television series Civilisation.
Speakers
James Stourton is the author of many books including The British as Art Collectors from the Tudors to the present, Great Houses of London and Kenneth Clark. He is a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research of London University. He started his career as an Old Master paintings specialist with Sotheby’s and rose to become UK Chairman. He left Sotheby’s four years ago in order to concentrate full time on his writing and academic career. James sits on several government committees including the Panel of the Heritage Memorial Fund, and the Acceptance in Lieu Panel. He frequently lectures on the history of art and collecting and has made several television programmes, most recently one of Kenneth Clark for BBC2 in 2014.
Scott Nethersole is Lecturer in Renaissance Art at The Courtauld. Scott curated the exhibition Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500 at the National Gallery in summer 2011, and he is currently completing a book entitled Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence.
Ayla Lepine is a specialist in the Gothic Revival, modern British and American architectural history, interactions between Christianity and the arts, and Victorian art and design. She completed her PhD at the Courtauld in 2011, and is Visiting Fellow in Art History within the School of Philosophy and Art History at the University of Essex. She is completing a book for Bloomsbury on neo-medievalism and modernism in British and American cities.