The shape of a pocket / John Berger.
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TextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury, 2001.Description: 264p. : ill.. ; 22cmISBN: - 0747554986
- 330.122 BER
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 330.122 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000187790 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when 2 or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. Insights abound in this stimulating compendium as John Berger observes and articulates questions that many people don't know how to ask.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Opening a Gate
- 2 Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible (for Yves)
- 3 Studio Talk (for Miquel Barceló)
- 4 The Chauvet Cave
- 5 Penelope
- 6 The Fayum Portraits
- 7 Degas
- 8 Drawing: Correspondence with Leon Kossoff
- 9 Vincent
- 10 Michelangelo
- 11 Rembrandt and the Body
- 12 A Cloth Over the Mirror
- 13 Brancusi
- 14 The River Po
- 15 Giorgio Morandi (for Gianni Celati)
- 16 Pull the Other Leg, It's Got Bells On It
- 17 Frida Kahlo
- 18 A Bed (for Christoph Hänsli)
- 19 A Man with Tousled Hair
- 20 An Apple Orchard (An Open Letter to Raymond Barre, Mayor of Lyon)
- 21 Brushes Standing Up in Jars
- 22 Against the Great Defeat of the World
- 23 Correspondence with Subcomandante Marcos:-
- I The Herons-
- II The Herons and Eagles-
- III How to Live with Stones
- 24 Will It Be a Likeness?
- (for Juan Munoz)
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)