John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels & 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, & since then his books have included the novel "G.", which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and he lives in a small village in the French Alps.
"It’s a book about art history and the media, but it’s also a magic
trick." -- The New Republic
"Berger fulfils the roles of a philosopher, listener, and somewhat
of a magician as he makes tantalising worlds appear, and illusions
vanish." -- Pratibha Rai, Oxford Culture Review
"The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . .
It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that
are now commonplace." —Geoff Dyer
"...perhaps the most bold, clear, and widely renowned explanation
of art’s entanglement with capitalism." -- The Paris Review
"Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of
the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and
once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are
in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation." —Peter
Fuller, Arts Review
"Over the past sixty years, the great John Berger — art critic,
essayist, screenwriter, novelist, poet, and artist — has made
immeasurable contributions to our understanding of culture and
politics, never more potently than in Ways of Seeing." -The Village
Voice
On John Berger:
“In contemporary English letters he seems to me peerless.” -- Susan
Sontag
“We learned from him to see that basic assumptions about
everything—work, play, art, commerce—are hidden in the surrounding
culture of images.” -- Jane Gaines
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