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Universal Man

Sir Kenneth describes Mr. Jefferson as
"the typical universal man of the 18th
century."

The University, says Sir Kenneth, "is full of
his character... There are 10 pavilions for 10
professors, and between them, behind a
colonnade, the rooms of the students, all within
reach, and yet all individual: the ideal of
corporate humanism."

He calls Monticello "the beginning of that
simple, almost rustic classicism that stretched
right up the eastern seaboard of America, and
lasted for 100 years, producing a body of
civilised, domestic architecture equal to any in
the world."

Former chairman of the Arts Council of
Great Britain, Director of the National Gallery
in London and chairman of the Independent
Television Authority, Sir Kenneth has written a
number of books and essays including "The
Gothic Revival," "Landscape into Art" and
"Rembrandt and the Italian Renaissance."

First shown in the United States at the
National Gallery of Art in Washington and to
guests of New York University and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York the
film series was purchased by the University's
architecture school through a grant from the
Powder River Foundation Incorporated. It will
be placed in the permanent architecture library
for use throughout the University.