Landscapes: John Berger on Art
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.81 (745 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1784785849 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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. His many books include Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, Here Is Where We Meet, the Booker Prize winning novel G, Hold Everything Dear, the Man Booker–long-listed From A to X and A Seventh Man. Tom Overton catalogued John Berger’s archive at the British Library. Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally infl
A collection of autobiographical essays by John Berger describing his lifelong experience with art. This is a collection of essays by John Berger that have been previously published over the duration of his lifetime. It has been collected and edited by Tom Overton, who has cataloged John Berger's archive at the British Library. These essays were chosen to describe Berger's attitudes and relationship with art. Most of the essays are just a few pages long and span . "Landscapes" is a metapor--This is a book of John Berger's essays, a "landscape" of his life & ideas about writing, art & more (Review based on paperback ARC not the hardback--no way to evaluate price of HB or final appearance as a result)I ordered this without any familiarity with John Berger. I saw he was described as a Marxist art critic and that he'd written several other books about art, including the similarly named "Portraits". That book, apparently is a look at the history of art w. "Five Stars" according to Felipe Cabello. Outstanding reading by one the best art critics of the 20th and 21st centuries
As a master storyteller and thinker John Berger challenges readers to rethink their every assumption about the role of creativity in our lives. With “landscape” as an animating, liberating metaphor rather than a rigid defnition, this collection surveys the aesthetic landscapes that have informed, challenged and nourished John Berger’s understanding of the world. He pays homage to the writers and thinkers who infuenced him, such as Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg and Bertolt Brecht. A major new work from the world’s leading writer on artLandscapes, the companion volume to John Berger’s highly acclaimed Portraits, explores what art tells us about ourselves. Landscapes—alongside Portraits—completes a tour through the history of art that will be an intellectual benchmark for many years to come.. 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. “Berger’s work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways,” writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume. His expansive perspective take
He is a master.” —Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things “I admire and love John Berger’s books … Not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience. But above all, he teaches us how to love in the face of adversity. “Essential … reminds us that all good writing comes only from good (that is, patient, attentive, loving) looking.” —Andrew Marr, New Statesman “Berger’s prose manifests an ethics of the committed gaze, a great sympathy for the human animal in pain and a great anger for the political conditions that extend that pain unnecessarily. He is a wonderful artist and thinker.” —Susan Sonta