SOURCE: Morris, Jan. “Bestiary.” Spectator 238 (15 October 1977): 21-2.

In the following essay, Morris declares that Clark's Animals and Men: Their Relationship as Reflected in Western Art from Prehistory to the Present Day is a lovely and insightful book, but questions some of Clark's viewpoints and argues that the book covers only a limited geographical area and time period.

Of the dead, Lord Clark, and the World Wildlife Fund one speaks only good, and I must begin this review of the Master's bestiary, benefiting the Fund and containing animal portraiture by scores of artists, all dead but two—I must start by declaring it to be a lovely thing. It is full of magnificent works, from the pre-historical to the almost contemporary. It is rich in Lord Clark's humane and worldly insights. Thames and Hudson have produced it most handsomely, at a proper price, and if you buy it you...