Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible

Informationen zum Autor John Berger was born in London in 1926. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G. , which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, to live in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017. Klappentext '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 us. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists. Zusammenfassung '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 us. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

About the author

John Berger was born in London in 1926. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, to live in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.

Product details

• Authors: John Berger
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.09.2020
• EAN: 9780241472873
• ISBN: 978-0-241-47287-3
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Great Ideas; Penguin Press Great Ideas; Great Ideas
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, ART / History / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Techniques / Painting, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics, Painting & paintings, Literary essays, Portraits in art, Paintings and painting, Portraits and self-portraiture in art