A major new work from the world's leading writer on art
Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and
critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally influential
writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of
Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, Here Is Where We
Meet, the Booker Prize winning novel G, Hold Everything Dear, the
Man Booker-long-listed From A to X and A Seventh Man.
Tom Overton catalogued John Berger's archive at the British
Library. He has curated exhibitions at King's Cultural Institute,
Somerset House and the Whitechapel Gallery, and his writing has
been published by the LRB blog, New Statesman, Apollo, White
Review, Various Small Fires, Tate, the British Council and others.
Berger is a masterful observer, a trait that lends his writing a
profound element of artistry: these essays read like sketched
studies of an as-yet-painted masterwork . these worldly essays are
timeless, inspiring works of critical observation.
*Kirkus*
John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel how to stare at
things until we see what we thought wasn't there. But above all, he
teaches us how to love in the face of adversity. He is a
master.
*Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things*
I admire and love John Berger's books ... Not since Lawrence has
there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual
world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience. He is a
wonderful artist and thinker.
*Susan Sontag*
One of the most influential intellectuals of our time.
*Observer*
Berger is a writer one demands to know more about ... an intriguing
and powerful mind and talent
*New York Times*
Rich, with a broad, pluralistic approach and collaborative
ethos
*Art Newspaper*
Essential ... reminds us that all good writing comes only from good
(that is, patient, attentive, loving) looking.
*New Statesman*
The second collection of Berger's art writing judiciously edited by
Tom Overton
*Frieze*
Life has more light and colour after an encounter with Berger
*Art Newspaper*
Essential reading not just for our political moment but outside it.
He was a monument, a world of his own; at the same time, his
thinking and his art-which are the same thing-address themselves at
once to the past, the present, and the future.
*n+1*
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