A critical assessment of Picasso and his work. This book is part biography - the book follows his life and work and childhood in Spain through Guernica to France - and part critical study.

Success and failure of Picasso

Biographies & Memoirs

BERGER, JOHN

Arts & Literature

Penguin??Books

John Berger’s seminal text on how to look at art John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has. "The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace." —Geoff Dyer"Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation." —Peter Fuller, Arts Review

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series (Penguin Books for Art)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Once in Europa (Granta Paperbacks)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Granta

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial experience of viewing lilacs at dusk, and explores the meaning of home to early man and to the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in our cities today. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos is a seamless fusion of the political and personal.

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

Random House, Inc.

KEEPING A RENDEZVOUS

When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. A photograph of a gravely joyful crowd gathered on a Prague street in November 1989 provokes reflection on the meaning of democracy and the reunion of a people with long-banished hopes and dreams.With the luminous essays in Keeping a Rendezvous, we are given to see the world as Berger sees it -- to explore themes suggested by the work of Jackson Pollock or J. M. W. Turner, to contemplate the wonder of Paris. Rendezvous are manifold: between critic and art, artist and subject, subject and the unknown. But most significant are the rendezvous between author and reader, as we discover our perceptions informed by Berger's eloquence and courageous moral imagination.

Keeping a Rendezvous

Penguin Books / Granta

Once In Europa

Short Stories & Anthologies

Granta Books

In the mythic city of Troy, amidst the shanty-towns, factories, opulent hotels, fading heritages and steadfast dreams, the children and grandchildren of rural peasants pursue meagre livings as best they can. And two young lovers embark upon a passionate journey of love and survival.

Lilac and Flag

When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, John Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. A photograph of a gravely joyful crowd gathered on a Prague street in November 1989 provokes reflection on the meaning of democracy and the reunion of a people with long-banished hopes and dreams.With the luminous essays in Keeping a Rendezvous, we are given to see the world as Berger sees it -- to explore themes suggested by the work of Jackson Pollock or J. M. W. Turner, to contemplate the wonder of Paris. Rendezvous are manifold: between critic and art, artist and subject, subject and the unknown. But most significant are the rendezvous between author and reader, as we discover our perceptions informed by John Berger's eloquence and courageous moral imagination.

Granta Books in association with Penguin Books

Art and Revolution - Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR

PANTHEON PAPERBACK

This anthology of some of John Berger’s most incisive and brilliant essays and articles, written throughout the 1960s, is one of his most celebrated books. The pieces span from the life of artists like Camille Corot and Fernand Léger; character sketches of the likes of Le Corbusier, Walter Benjamin, Jack Yeats, and Che Guevara; and reflections about the Czechoslovakian Revolution of 1969; but they are unified by a coherently Marxist-humanist perspective that refuses fragmentary analysis in favor of a synthesis of human nature and the human experience. Este volumen es uno de los libros más celebrados de John Berger, la antología de algunos de sus artículos y ensayos más incisivos y brillantes escritos a lo largo de la década de 1960. Desde la vida de artistas como Camille Corot o Fernand Léger, pasando por retratos de personajes como Le Corbusier, Walter Benjamin, Jack Yeats o Che Guevara, hasta reflexiones en torno a la revolución checoslovaca de 1969, estas páginas abordan temas dispares bajo una mirada coherente, humanista y marxista que rehúye el análisis fragmentario a favor de una síntesis de la experiencia y la naturaleza humanas. La apariencia de las cosas pone de manifiesto la coherencia que Berger siempre ha mostrado en su construcción de la idea de libertad y su actitud intransigente ante las desigualdades.

Selected essays and articles: The look of things; (Pelican books)

Penguin

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