John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and lived in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.
"[Berger is] a writer one demands to know more about...an
intriguing and powerful mind and talent." -- The New York Times
With this provocative and infinitely moving collection of essays, a
preeminent critic of our time responds to the profound questions
posed by the visual world. For when John Berger writes about
Cubism, he writes not only of Braque, Leger, Picasso, and Gris, but
of that incredible moment early in this century when the world
converged around a marvelous sense of promise. When he looks at the
work of Modigliani, he sees a man's infinite love revealed in the
elongated lines of the painted figure.
Ranging from the Renaissance to the conflagration of Hiroshima;
from the Bosphorus to Manhattan; from the woodcarvers of a French
village to Goya, Durer, and Van Gogh; and from private experiences
of love and of loss to the major political upheavals of our time,
The Sense of Sight encourages us to see with the same breadth,
courage, and moral engagement that its author does.
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