![]() 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, challenged and nourished John Berger’s understanding of the world. 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.īerger 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. He pays homage to the writers and thinkers who infuenced him, such as Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg and Bertolt Brecht. ![]() In this brilliant collection of diverse pieces-essays, short stories, poems, translations-which spans a lifetime’s engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing. In fact, there are some wonderful aspects to it. Though my curiousity was leading me to read G someday, that day has just been pushed back since finishing From A to X. His infamous acceptance speech is better remembered. ![]() As a master storyteller and thinker John Berger challenges readers to rethink their every assumption about the role of creativity in our lives. J ohn Berger has won the Booker before, in 1972, with G. “Berger’s work is an invitation to reimagine to see in different ways,” writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume. ![]()
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