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: metaphorically. I too have sucked the lollipop. Ruskin...