Selected essays / John Berger ; edited by Geoff Dyer.
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TextPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books c2001.Description: xiii, 588 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0375421564
- Selections. 2001
- 824.914 BER
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 824.914 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000232935 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
On the occasion of his seventy-fith birthday, Pantheon is publishing a gathering of John Berger's most insightful and provocative writings on art over the past forty years. Selected Essaysbrings together a comprehensive array of writings from Berger's previous collections:Toward Reality,The Moment of Cubism,The Look of Things,About Looking,The Sense of Sight, andKeeping a Rendezvous. From Piero to Pollock, from Kokoschka to La Tour, from mass demonstrations to museums--the ideas in these essays are as fresh and compelling as they were when first published. Polemical, meditative, radical, always original, they display a remarkable continuity of thoughtful inquiry and political engagement.
Includes bibliographical references.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
John Peter Berger was born in London, England on November 5, 1926. After serving in the British Army from 1944 to 1946, he enrolled in the Chelsea School of Art. He began his career as a painter and exhibited work at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s. He then worked as an art critic for The New Statesman for a decade.He wrote fiction and nonfiction including several volumes of art criticism. His novels include A Painter of Our Time, From A to X, and G., which won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize in 1972. His other works include an essay collection entitled Permanent Red, Into Their Labors, and a book and television series entitled Ways of Seeing.
In the 1970s, he collaborated with the director Alain Tanner on three films. He wrote or co-wrote La Salamandre, The Middle of the World, and Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000. He died on January 1, 2017 at the age of 90.
(Bowker Author Biography)