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.

Info autore

Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is 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.

Tom Overton catalogued John Berger’s archive at the British Library and edited Portraits: John Berger on Art. He is working on Berger’s biography and a book on migration and archives. His collected writing is available at overton.tw. He has organized exhibitions at King’s Cultural Institute, Somerset House and the Whitechapel Gallery.

Relazione

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Berger
• Con la collaborazione di: Tom Overton (Editore)
• Editore: Verso
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 23.11.2021
• EAN: 9781839764158
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-415-8
• Pagine: 544
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 200 mm x 40 mm
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Antiquariato; 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