John Berger: 76 books

From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a collection of essays that explores the relationship of art and artists and includes examinations of the work of Brancusi, Degas, Michelangelo, and Frida Kahlo, among others. The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed...

A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Selçuk Demirel. "Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked." This charming illustrated work reflects on the cultural implications of smoking,...

Il miracolo della vista, e del suo recupero, nel monologo interiore di uno dei più grandi intellettuali del nostro tempo. Con il commento a china del vignettista di “Le Monde Diplomatique”. “Se le porte della percezione fossero purificate, tutto apparirebbe all’uomo come in effetti è, infinito”...

Esiste una nuova specie di tiranni che non ha nulla a che vedere con i dittatori del passato. Hanno una faccia anonima, vagamente rassicurante, «come la sagoma dei furgoni portavalori». Sono vestiti in modo impeccabile, hanno capigliature curate, occhi svelti che osservano tutto, orecchie capienti...

At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. At the height of his fame, he was the artist as royalty: incalculably wealthy, universally idolized−and wholly isolated. In...

As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers...

La mirada incisiva de John Berger inaugura nuevos modos de ver donde la mirada hacia el arte y hacia la vida se confunden combinando un exhaustivo análisis que tiende a ser 'objetivo', entre materialista y purovisualista. El ojo de la cámara y el ojo del artista nos hablan del significado oculto...

First published thirty years ago, John Berger's tender and bittersweet novel is a book of dreams: dreams of freedom and romance, dreams that intoxicate and redeem, dreams that have the power to exalt their dreamers or dash them against hard truth. It is the unforgettable, often comical portrait of...

"There are no photographs which can be denied. All photographs have the status of fact. What is to be examined is in what way photography can and cannot give meaning to facts." With these words, two of our most thoughtful and eloquent interrogators of the visual offer a singular meditation...

Winer of a 1994 Time Out Theatre Award and TMA/Martini Award for Best UK Touring Production Lucie Cabrol is a wild, tiny woman born into a peasant family in France in 1900. Abandoned by her lover, Jean, and banished by her family, she becomes an outcast. She survives her second life by smuggling...

El programa televisivo Ways of seeing, dirigido en 1972 por un jovencísimo John Berger, se propuso analizar cómo nuestros modos de ver afectan a la forma de interpretar. La serie recibió diversos premios, revolucionó la teoría del arte y fue adaptada al presente libro, convirtiéndose desde entonces...

John Berger está considerado uno de los escritores y críticos de arte más influyentes y originales de los últimos tiempos. Sin embargo, una faceta de su trabajo mucho menos conocida es la de pintor y dibujante. Sobre el dibujo recoge una serie de ensayos que reflexionan sobre las dificultades...

'No hay fotografías que puedan ser negadas. Todas las fotografías poseen categoría de realidad. Lo que ha de examinarse es de qué modo la fotografía puede o no dar significado a los hechos.' Estas palabras de John Berger y el conocido fotógrafo suizo Jean Mohr, dos de nuestros más reflexivos...

Este volumen es uno de los libros más celebrados de John Berger, la antología de algunos de sus artículos y ensayos más incisivos y brillantes escritos a lo largo de la década de 1960. Desde la vida de artistas como Camille Corot o Fernand Léger, pasando por retratos de personajes como Le Corbusier,...