Landscapes
John Berger on Art
Published on 8. November 2016
272 pages
978-1-78478-586-4 (ISBN)
Description
Landscapes showcases the development and practice of John Berger's unique way of seeing. Here he surveys the aesthetic landscapes that have informed, challenged and nourished his understanding of the world.
Berger pays homage to the writers and thinkers who influenced him, such as Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg and Bertolt Brecht. His expansive perspective embraces artistic movements and individual artists - from the Renaissance to the present - while never neglecting the social and political context of their creation.
Berger pays homage to the writers and thinkers who influenced him, such as Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg and Bertolt Brecht. His expansive perspective embraces artistic movements and individual artists - from the Renaissance to the present - while never neglecting the social and political context of their creation.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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0,39 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78478-586-4 (9781784785864)
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Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. 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-longlisted From A to X; and A Seventh Man.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Down with Enclosures
- Part I: Redrawing the Maps
- 1. Kraków
- 2. To Take Paper, to Draw
- 3. The Basis of All Painting and Sculpture Is Drawing
- 4. Frederick Antal - A Personal Tribute
- 5. An Address to Danish Worker Actors on the Art of Observation, by Bertolt Brecht, Translated by Anya Rostock and John Berger
- 6. Revolutionary Undoing: On Max Raphael's
- 7. Walter Benjamin: Antiquarian and Revolutionary
- 8. The Storyteller
- 9. Ernst Fischer: A Philosopher and Death
- 10. Gabriel García Márquez: The Secretary of Death Reads It Back
- 11. Roland Barthes: Inside the Mask
- 12. Forthflowing on a Joycean Tide
- 13. A Gift for Rosa Luxemburg
- 14. The Ideal Critic and the Fighting Critic
- Part II: Terrain
- 15. The Clarity of the Renaissance
- 16. A View of Delft
- 17. The Dilemma of the Romantics
- 18. The Victorian Conscience
- 19. The Moment of Cubism
- 20. Parade
- 21. Judgment on Paris
- 22. Soviet Aesthetic
- 23. The Biennale
- 24. Art and Property Now
- 25. No More Portraits
- 26. The Historical Function of the Museum
- 27. The
- 28. 1968/1979 Preface to
- 29. Historical Afterword to the
- 30. The White Bird
- 31. The Soul and the Operator
- 32. The Third Week of August 1991
- 33. Ten Dispatches about Place (June 2005)
- 34. Stones (Palestine, June 2003)
- 35. Meanwhile
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
