Landscapes: John Berger on Art
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (677 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1784785849 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has curated exhibitions at King’s Cultural Institute, Somerset House and the Whitechapel Gallery, and his writing has been published by the LRB blog, New Statesman, Apollo, White Review, Various Small Fires, Tate, the British Council and others. Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally influential writers of the
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 essay. ""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, apparen. "Five Stars" according to Felipe Cabello. Outstanding reading by one the best art critics of the 20th and 21st centuries
He is a wonderful artist and thinker.” —Susan Sontag “One of the most influential intellectuals of our time.” —Sean O’Hagan, Observer “Berger is a writer one demands to know more about … an intriguing and powerful mind and talent.” —New York Times. As he wrote recently: ‘What has prompted me to write over the years is the hunch that something needs to be told and that if I don’t try to tell it, it risks not being told.’ The humbleness of the word ‘hunch’ in t
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. 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.. He pays homage to the writers and thinkers who infuenced him, such as Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg and Bertolt Brecht. As a master storyteller and thinker John Berger challenges readers to rethink their every assumption about the role of creativity in our lives. “Berger’s work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways,” writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume. 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 u