Portraits : John Berger on artists / by John Berger ; edited by Tom Overton.
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TextPublication details: London Verso 2015Description: xxii, 512 Seiten : Illustrationen, schwarz-weiss ; 24,2 cmISBN: - 9781784781767
- 1784781762
- 757 BER
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 757 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100622043 |
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One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. In Portraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Cy Twombly's radical work. In his penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about art history, and artists both canonized and obscure,from Rembrandt, to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. A beautifully illustrated walk through many centuries of visual culture from one of the contemporary world's most incisive critical voices.
The Chauvet Cave painters -- The Fayum portrait painters -- Piero della Francesca -- Antonello da Messina -- Andrea Mantegna -- Hieronymous Bosch -- Pieter Bruegel the elder -- Giovanni Bellini -- Matthias Grünewald -- Albrecht Dürer -- Michelangelo -- Titian -- Hans Holbein the younger -- Caravaggio -- Frans Hals -- Diego Velázquez -- Rembrandt -- Willem Drost -- Jean-Antoine Watteau -- Francisco de Honoré Goya -- Honoré Daumier -- J.M.W. Turner -- Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault -- Jean-François Millet -- Gustave Courbet -- Edgar Degas -- Ferdinand Le facteur Cheval -- Paul Cézanne -- Claude Monet -- Vincent van Gogh -- Käthe Kollwitz -- Henri Matisse -- Pablo Picasso -- Fernand Léger -- Ossip Zadkine -- Henry Moore -- Peter Lazslo Peri -- Alberto Giacometti -- Mark Rothko -- Robert Medley -- Frida Kahlo -- Francis Bacon -- Renato Guttuso -- Jackson Pollock -- Pollock and Lee Krasner -- Abidin Dino -- Nicolas de Staël -- Prunella Clough -- Sven Blomberg -- Friso Ten Holt -- Peter de Francia -- Francis Newton Souza -- Yvonne Barlow -- Ernst Neizvestny -- Leon Kossoff -- Anthony Fry -- Cy Twombly -- Frank Auerbach -- Vija Celmins -- Michael Quanne -- Maggi Hambling -- Liane Birnberg -- Peter Kennard -- Andres Serrano -- Juan Muñoz -- Rostia Kunovsky -- Jaume Plensa -- Cristina Iglesias -- Martin Noel -- Jean-Michel Basquiat -- Marisa Camino -- Christoph Hänsli -- Michael Broughton -- Randa Mdah.
One of the world\'s most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. In Portraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Cy Twombly\'s radical work. In his penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about art history, and artists both canonized and obscure, from Rembrandt, to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. A beautifully illustrated walk through many centuries of visual culture from one of the contemporary world\'s most incisive critical voices.
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)