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  • Into Their Labours

    by John Berger ...
    Available here in one volume, writer and critic John Berger’s monumental trilogy of novels, which tenderly depicts the collapse of European peasant culture—an earthbound way of life—under the alienating forces of urbanization and capitalism.In the early 1970s, at the height of his fame, novelist and art critic John Berger moved to a small Alpine village in the Haute-Savoie. There he worked for ... Read more

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  • Keeping a Rendezvous

    by John Berger ...
    John Berger’s intimate meditations on what is past, passing, and to comeBeginning each essay with an image, Keeping a Rendezvous examines the nature of the artistic encounter. Berger delves into questions of political struggle, the utility of hope, our relationship to images, and the role of art in our lives. By communing with the artists, revolutionaries and thinkers of the past, he shows how ... Read more

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  • The Look of Things

    by John Berger ...
    A brilliant collection of Berger's early works including the essential essay on the relationship of drawing and the artist.This anthology of some of John Berger’s most incisive and brilliant essays and articles, written throughout the 1960s, is one of his most celebrated books. The pieces span from the life of artists like Camille Corot and Fernand Léger; character sketches of the likes of Le ... Read more

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  • A Painter of our Time

    by John Berger ...
    Series series The Essential John Berger
    The Booker Prize winner’s poignant debut novel, a meditation on the interplay between art, exile and politicsExiled with his wife in 1950s London, Hungarian artist Janos Lavin struggles to find financial stability and artistic freedom in his new home. A friend, John, organises an exhibition of Lavin’s work, only for the artist to disappear shortly after. John tries to figure out what happened, ... Read more

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  • The Sense of Sight

    by John Berger ...
    Weaving art criticism with poetry, memoir with political commentary, this collection of essays is a prompt to reimagine the worldIn The Sense of Sight, John Berger considers the peculiar and complex practice of attentive observation. Ranging through subjects as distant from each other as the Renaissance from Hiroshima, encountering artists such as Goya, Dürer, and Van Gogh, Berger explores the ... Read more

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  • Portraits

    by John Berger ...
    “A rich and lovely exploration of art history” from the world-renowned art critic behind Ways of Seeing (Slate)!A diverse cast of artists comes to life in this jargon-free study Zadie Smith hails as “among the greatest books on art I’ve ever read.”One of the world’s most celebrated art writers takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse ... Read more

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  • Bento's Sketchbook

    by John Berger ...
    Series series The Essential John Berger
    A deeply moving exploration of the relationship between thinking and drawing, from the author of the groundbreaking Ways of SeeingThe seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notes—but no drawings.For years, without ... Read more

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  • Landscapes

    John Berger on Art

    by John Berger ...
    “Essential reading”—n+1Creative and political art criticism on landscape works from the Renaissance to the present from a “master” storyteller (Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things)In this brilliant collection of diverse pieces—essays, short stories, poems, translations—which spans a lifetime’s engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing. He ... Read more

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  • G.

    by John Berger ...
    **In this Booker Prize–winning classic, a Casanova-esque young man searches for philosophical and sexual fulfillment as he seduces his way across Europe on the eve of World War I.John Berger's picaresque work, one of the author's finest novels, is an inspired exploration of intimacy and loneliness set at the turn of the twentieth century.**Who is G.? The illegitimate son of an Italian candy ... Read more

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  • From A to X

    A Story in Letters

    by John Berger ...
    Series series The Essential John Berger
    In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A’ida. Her insurgent lover Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A’ida’sletters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and ofits motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. Butthe area is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroachesfrom outside, so the smallest details and acts of ... Read more

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  • About Looking

    by John Berger, Tom Overton ...
    One of the writer and art critic’s finest essay collections, which includes his influential essay on animal ethics, “Why Look at Animals?”; a critique of the “bourgeois sexual morality” of Rodin’s sculptures; and an unlikely work of criticism linking Francis Bacon and Walt Disney.John Berger was a thinker and writer of altogether extraordinary independence and range, an essayist, novelist, poet, ... Read more

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  • The Moment of Cubism

    by John Berger ...
    The revolutionary nature of art, from the groundbreaking author of Ways of SeeingThe Moment of Cubism is one of John Berger’s most important collections of art criticism. Whether considering Vermeer in his studio, Poussin’s poignant meditation on death, or the complexities of Rodin’s sculpture, Berger draws together the threads that bind individual artists to their social and political context. ... Read more

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