What Time Is It?

John Berger's final book, posthumously published for the first time in English. A playful meditation on the illusory nature of time, evaluating the way it is spoken about and worked with. Completes a trilogy of collaborations between Berger and the illustrator Selcuk Demirel, also featuring "Cataract" and "Smoke".

Info autore

John Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university text. John Berger died in 2017.

 
Selçuk Demirel was born in Turkey and lives in Paris. His illustrations have been featured in major publications all over the world including Le Monde Diplomatique, the World and the New Observer, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe.

Riassunto

What Time Is It? is a playful meditation on the illusory nature of time. In this beautiful essay in pictures, Berger posits the idea that by experiencing the extraordinary, we can defy time itself.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Berger, Berger John, Selçuk Demirel, Maria Nadotti
• Con la collaborazione di: Selcuk Demirel (Illustrazione), Selçuk Demirel (Illustrazione), Demirel Selcuk (Illustrazione), Nadotti Maria (Introduzione)
• Editore: Notting Hill Editions
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.09.2019
• EAN: 9781912559145
• ISBN: 978-1-912559-14-5
• Pagine: 108
• Dimensioni: 120 mm x 190 mm x 14 mm
• Peso: 182 g
• Illustrazioni: Colour and b/w illlustrations throughout
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Saggi, articoli culturali, critica letteraria, interviste; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Fisica, astronomia > Meccanica, acustica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte; Popular Culture, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, SCIENCE / Time, Philosophy, ART / Popular Culture, John Berger, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Literary essays, Individual artists, art monographs, Society and culture: general, Other graphic or visual art forms, Time (chronology), time systems & standards