Landscapes: John Berger on Art
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (569 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1784785849 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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But above all, he teaches us how to love in the face of adversity. He was a monument, a world of his own; at the same time, his thinking and his art—which are the same thing—address themselves at once to the past, the present, and the future.”—n+1 “Life has more light and colour after an encounter with Berger.” —Art Newspaper “Berger is a masterful observer, a trait that lends his writing a profound element of artistry: these essays read like sketched studies of an as-yet-painted masterwork … these worldly essays are timeless, inspiring works of critical observation.”—Kirkus Praise for John Berger: “John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel how to stare at things until we see what we thought wasn&rsquo
A collection of autobiographical essays by John Berger describing his lifelong experience with art. pixels and bits 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 his entire lifetime. As a collection, they. ""Landscapes" is a metapor--This is a book of John Berger's essays, a "landscape" of his life & ideas about writing, art & more" according to Elisa 20. (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 with some inspiration for the journey comin. "Five Stars" according to Felipe Cabello. Outstanding reading by one the best art critics of the 20th and 21st centuries
He pays homage to the writers and thinkers who infuenced him, such as Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg and Bertolt Brecht. “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 takes in artistic movements and individual artists—from the Renaissance to the present—while never neglecting the social and political context of their creation. 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. Berger pushes at the limits of art writing, demonstrating beautifully how his artist’s eye makes him a storyteller in these essays, rather than a critic. Landscapes—alongside Portraits—completes a tour through the history of art that will be an intellectual benchmark for many years to come.. With “landscape” as an animating, liberating metaphor rather than a rigid defnition, this collection surveys the aesthetic landscapes that have informed, challe
Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is 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–long-listed From A to