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Smoke by John Berger
Category: Culture
A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Sel�uk Demirel. "Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked." This charming illustrated work reflects on the cultural implications of smoking, and suggests, throu ...Show more
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
Category: Art and Design | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks' In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and moving sense of how we make art and how art makes u ...Show more
The Accidental Heiress: - Journey of a Glencoe Squatter's Daughter by John Berger; Carol Grbich
Category: History
It is hard to imagine that a little girl growing up on a frontier farm in the 1860's would one day rub shoulders with the King and Queen of England. Yet that is exactly what happened to Letitia Sarah Leake. She spent her childhood playing with boomerangs and Aboriginal children at Glencoe in South Austr ...Show more
The Foot of Clive by John Berger
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
From the 1972 Booker Prize-winning author comes an examination of masculinity, social covenants and murder that develops into a masterclass in humanity In the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed, guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and likely to die befor ...Show more
The Klutz Book of Animation & Clay by John Cassidy & Nicholas Berger
Category: Art and Design | Series: Klutz
Welcome to world of animation. It used to take an empire the size of the Magic Kingdom to make an animated film. Today, making movie magic with stop motion animation requires a laptop, a camera, and an internet connection. The Klutz Book of Animation is a complete how-to treatment of this newly accessib ...Show more
The Red Tenda of Bologna (Mini Modern Classics) by John Berger
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.'A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the visionary thinker and art critic.
The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger
Category: Culture
The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order.
The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger
Category: Art Instructional | Series: Vintage International
The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order. The people coming together are the reader, me, and those the essays are about Rembrandt, Paleolithic ca ...Show more
The Success and Failure of Picasso by John Berger
Category: Art and Design | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Contending that 'for Picasso, what he is is far more important than what he does', this prescient 1965 work of criticism from the author of Ways of Seeing explores art, celebrity, commerce and the mass media. Investigating every aspect of Picasso's life and work - from the Blue Period through Cubism and ...Show more
The Success and Failure of Picasso by John Berger
Category: Art and Design | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In this classic of art criticism, one of our foremost cultural historians grapples with the life and work of one of the twentieth century's most mercurial and prodigious artists. In The Success and Failure of Picasso, John Berger places the artist in the historical, social and political contexts that ma ...Show more
The Underground Sea by John Berger; Tom Overton (Editor); Matthew Harle (Editor)
Category: General History
A succinct, urgent and never-before seen collection of Berger's writing on mineworkers and miners' strikes celebrating both his acclaimed writing and deep-rooted politics
Titian by John Berger
Category: Travel Guides
This book is first a dialogue between a daughter and a father about life, physical sensation, mortality. Both seem to listen to the other with great attention. Secondly it is the extraordinary vehicle for a series of insights into the everyday life and the art of the great Venetian master, following an ...Show more