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John Berger
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But, there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes…
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Joshua Sperling
The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger
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‘Language is a body, a living creature … and this creature’s home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate’.
John Berger’s work has revolutionized the way we understand visual…
From the 1972 Booker Prize-winning author comes an examination of masculinity, social covenants and murder that develops into a masterclass in humanity
Iona Heath
Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her…
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Contains essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W Eugene Smith - and the…
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Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
‘It’s an improbable city, Bologna -…
An extended reflection by a masterful essayist on what it means to be human.
Mahmoud Darwish
A major new translation of remarkable, late poems by the great Palestinian poet
A succinct, urgent and never-before seen collection of Berger's writing on mineworkers and miners' strikes celebrating both his acclaimed writing and deep-rooted politics
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We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks.
In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between…
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A reissued edition of this classic Booker Prize-winning novel
Nikos Papastergiadis
The memoir of a deep friendship between two important intellectual figures bound by their interest in art and their experience of migration.
In John Berger and I, the eminent Australian…
A major new translation of remarkable, late poems by the great Palestinian poet.
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The follow-up to the seminal Ways of Seeing, one of the most influential books on art
Amber Scoon
Letters to John Berger is a collection of letters written to John Berger in the year following his death. While John was alive, Amber and John sent each other drawings…
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Berger’s exploration of what it means to heal, now inducted into the Canons series nearly fifty years after its first publication.
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What does art tell us about ourselves? John Berger on the politics and consolations of creativity.
Sascha Michael Campi
Der einstige Staranwalt John Berger ist komplett dem Alkohol verfallen. Am Tiefpunkt seiner Karriere angelangt, erhalt John ein neues Mandat ubermittelt, eine schreckliche Familientragoedie mit Todesfolge. Der Fall scheint schnell…
Once read, Berger’s insights make it impossible to look at a painting, watch a film, or even make love quite the same way again. The range of subjects he addresses…
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On John Berger: Telling Stories is the first collection of essays exploring the multi-facetted, genre-crossing work of John Berger from an interdisciplinary perspective.
John Berger (School of Medicine & Dentistry Western University in the Schulich USA)
Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays takes a look at his career…
New edition: A Personal History of Art from the author of Ways of Seeing
William Boyd
An issue of Granta devoted to all things Soviet, including fiction, non-fiction, photographs, interviews and an exclusive interview with Mikhail Gorbachev by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Emmanouil Kalkanis,Katja Lang
Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. Berger first examines how our assumptions affect how we see a painting, then he moves on…
A powerful meditation on political resistance from one of the most original and influential thinkers of our times
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Exiled in London, the Hungarian artist Janos Lavin disappears one day, into thin air. His journal offers his friend John the only clues to where he has gone, and why.
A novel by the Booker prize winning author.
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This visionary first novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of To the Wedding and G. is at once a gripping intellectual and moral detective story and a book whose aesthetic…
In a seedy unemployment agency in Clapham, two men, one old, one young, carry on a dialogue and build up a complex relationship. Corker, kept in line by an invalid…
Essays and poems explore the emotions of the author and examine the natures of art, love, time, and poetry.
A blind Greek peddler tells the story of the wedding between a fellow peddler and his bride in a remarkable series of vivid and telling vignettes. As the book cinematically…
In this prescient and beautifully written book, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially…
In this powerful volume of essays, one of the most important art critics of our time reawakens us to the wonder and minifold meanings of the visual world as he…
Este libro recoge las conversaciones mantenidas entre John Berger, John Christie, sor Lucia Kuppens y sor Telchilde Hinckley tras visitar en 2009 la capilla de Ronchamp de Le Corbusier. En…
With the poetic acuity that renders his work timeless, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger brings us a twenty-four hour chronicle of homelessness. Beside a highway, in a wasteland furnished with…
Berger’s exploration of what it means to heal, now inducted into the Canons series nearly fifty years after its first publication
This is a collection of portraits of a shepherd, a farmer, a painter and blind man, a sylph of Byzantine arrogance and a vagabond cyclist with primroses growing in her…
Essays explore the ways in which we look at and derive meaning from paintings by Courbet, Turner, Magritte, and others, as well as nature, zoos, and photographs.
A cycle of timeless love stories set in a peasant village comprises the highly acclaimed second volume of one of the great works of fiction in this century .–Booklist.
Born to an Italian father and his American mistress, G. becomes, in the years before the First World War, a modern Don Juan.
Essays explore topics including poetry, torture, storytelling, and the works of artists such as Goya, Monet, Rubens, and Modigliani.
The conclusion of the three-volume Into Their Labours follows Zsuzsa and Sucus, two peasants living in the global city of Troy, who meet and embark on an odyssey of love…
A critical assessment of Picasso and his work. This book is part biography - the book follows his life and work and childhood in Spain through Guernica to France -…
A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. This work features essays about…
