Portraits - John Berger on Artists

John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artists. Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both canonized and obscure, from Rembrandt to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. The result is an illuminating walk through many centuries of visual culture, from one of the contemporary world's most incisive critical voices.

About the author

Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing; the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours; Here Is Where We Meet; the Booker Prize-winning novel G; Hold Everything Dear; the Man Booker-longlisted From A to X; and A Seventh Man.

Report

John Berger's "Portraits" is among the greatest books on art I've ever read. Zadie Smith New York Times

Product details

• Authors: John Berger
• Assisted by: Tom Overton (Editor)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2021
• EAN: 9781839764158
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-415-8
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Theory of art, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / Art & Politics, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Portraits in art, Portraits and self-portraiture in art