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Portraits John Berger on Artists by John Berger
Category: Art
One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. In Portraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Cy Twombly's radical work ...Show more
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
Category: Art
A major new book from one of the world's leading writers and art critics John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated art writers, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In Portraits, Berger grounds the artists in the ...Show more
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
Category: Art
John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both cano ...Show more
Return to My Native Land by Aimé Césaire; John Berger (Translator); Anna Bostock (Translator)
Category: Poetry & Plays
'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.' This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the negritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one man's return from Europe to his homeland of Martinique, it is a reckoning with the trauma of slave ...Show more
Safavid Ultra Vertical Week at a Time 2017 Diary by Ozdamar Emine Sevgi & Berger John (foreward)
Category: Gift
Selected Essays of John Berger by John Berger
Category: Art
The writing career of John Berger-poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist-has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger's seminal essays. Berger' ...Show more
Smoke by John Berger
Category: Non-Fiction
A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Sel�uk Demirel. "Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked." This charming illustrated work reflects on the cultural implications of smoking, and suggests, throu ...Show more
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
Category: Art | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'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 art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and moving sense of how we make art and how art makes u ...Show more
The Accidental Heiress: - Journey of a Glencoe Squatter's Daughter by John Berger; Carol Grbich
Category: Australiana
It is hard to imagine that a little girl growing up on a frontier farm in the 1860's would one day rub shoulders with the King and Queen of England. Yet that is exactly what happened to Letitia Sarah Leake. She spent her childhood playing with boomerangs and Aboriginal children at Glencoe in South Austr ...Show more
The Foot of Clive by John Berger
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
From the 1972 Booker Prize-winning author comes an examination of masculinity, social covenants and murder that develops into a masterclass in humanity In the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed, guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and likely to die befor ...Show more
The Klutz Book of Animation & Clay by John Cassidy & Nicholas Berger
Category: Education | Series: Klutz
Welcome to world of animation. It used to take an empire the size of the Magic Kingdom to make an animated film. Today, making movie magic with stop motion animation requires a laptop, a camera, and an internet connection. The Klutz Book of Animation is a complete how-to treatment of this newly accessib ...Show more
The Red Tenda of Bologna (Mini Modern Classics) by John Berger
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.'A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the visionary thinker and art critic.