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Landscapes: John Berger on Art by John Berger
Category: Art and Design
With Portraits, world renowned art writer John Berger took us on a captivating journey through centuries of art, situating each artist in their political and historical contexts. In Landscapes, a portrait of Berger's own journey emerges. Through Berger's penetrating engagement with the writers and artis ...Show more
Landscapes - John Berger on Art by John Berger
Category: Art and Design
A major new work from the world's leading writer on art Landscapes, the companion volume to John Berger's highly acclaimed Portraits, explores what art tells us about ourselves. "Berger's work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways," writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume ...Show more
Mural by John (TRN) Rema (TRN); Berger Mahmoud; Hammami Darwish
Category: Poetry
Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half-century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession, exile and loss. His poems also display a brilliant acuity, a passion for and openness to the world and, above al ...Show more
Photocopies: Encounters by John Berger
Category: Culture | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
In his first collection of stories in a decade, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger assembles 29 vividly rendered moments that together make up a frieze of human history at the end of the millennium. Berger's PHOTOCOPIES teaches us about lies and charity, dignity and courage--the things that will ke ...Show more
Pig Earth by John Berger
Category: Art
With this haunting first volume in his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of skeptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women; of calv ...Show more
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
Category: Art and Design
John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both cano ...Show more
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
Category: Art and Design
A major new book from one of the world's leading writers and art critics John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated art writers, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In Portraits, Berger grounds the artists in the ...Show more
Portraits John Berger on Artists by John Berger
Category: Art and Design
One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. In Portraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Cy Twombly's radical work ...Show more
Return to My Native Land by Aimé Césaire; John Berger (Translator); Anna Bostock (Translator)
Category: Poetry
'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.' This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the negritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one man's return from Europe to his homeland of Martinique, it is a reckoning with the trauma of slave ...Show more
Selected Essays of John Berger by John Berger
Category: Culture
The writing career of John Berger-poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist-has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger's seminal essays. Berger' ...Show more