Selected Essays of John Berger

Editor's Introduction

FromPermanent Red(1960) (US titleToward Reality)
Preface to the 1979 Edition
Introduction
Drawing
Jackson Pollock
Henry Moore
Juan Gris
Jacques Lipchitz
Ossip Zadkine
Fernand Léger
Pablo Picasso
Henri Matisse
Oskar Kokoschka
The Clarity of the Renaissance
The Calculations of Piero
Poussin's Order
Watteau as the Painter of His Time
The Honesty of Goya
The Dilemma of the more >>

Editor's Introduction

FromPermanent Red(1960) (US titleToward Reality)
Preface to the 1979 Edition
Introduction
Drawing
Jackson Pollock
Henry Moore
Juan Gris
Jacques Lipchitz
Ossip Zadkine
Fernand Léger
Pablo Picasso
Henri Matisse
Oskar Kokoschka
The Clarity of the Renaissance
The Calculations of Piero
Poussin's Order
Watteau as the Painter of His Time
The Honesty of Goya
The Dilemma of the Romantics
Millet and Labour
The Politics of Courbet
Gauguin’s Crime

FromThe Moment of Cubism(1969)
The Moment of Cubism
The Historical Function of the Museum
The Changing View of Man in the Portrait
Art and Property Now
Image of Imperialism
Nude in a Fur Coat: Rubens
The Painter in His Studio: Vermeer
Et in Arcadia Ego: Poussin
The Maja DressedandThe Maja Undressed: Goya
Mathias Grünewald
L. S. Lowry 138
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Alberto Giacometti
Pierre Bonnard
Frans Hals
Auguste Rodin

FromThe Look of Things(1972)
Peter Peri
Zadkine
Le Corbusier
Victor Serge
Walter Benjamin
Drawings by Watteau
Fernand Léger
Thicker than Water (Corot)
Painting a Landscape
Understanding a Photograph
The Political Uses of Photo-Montage
The Sight of a Man
Revolutionary Undoing
Past Seen from a Possible Future
The Nature of Mass Demonstrations

The Booker Prize Speech
Speech on Accepting the Booker Prize for Fiction (1972)

FromAbout Looking(1980)
Why Look at Animals?
The Suit and the Photograph
Photographs of Agony
Paul Strand
Uses of Photography
The Primitive and the Professional
Millet and the Peasant
Seker Ahmet and the Forest
La Tour and Humanism
Francis Bacon and Walt Disney
An Article of Faith
Between Two Colmars
Courbet and the Jura
Turner and the Barber’s Shop
Rouault and the Suburbs of Paris
Magritte and the Impossible
Romaine Lorquet
Field

FromThe White Bird(1985) (US titleThe Sense of Sight)
The White Bird
The Storyteller
The Eaters and the Eaten
On the Bosphorus
The Theatre of Indifference
Modigliani's Alphabet of Love
The Hals Mystery
In a Moscow Cemetery
Ernst Fischer: A Philosopher and Death
François, Georges and Amélie: A Requiem in Three Parts
Drawn to That Moment
The Eyes of Claude Monet
TheWorkof Art
Mayakovsky: His Language and His Death [with Anya Bostock]
The Hour of Poetry
Leopardi
The Production of the World

Ulysses
The First and Last Recipe:Ulysses(1991)

FromKeeping a Rendezvous(1992)
Note to the Reader
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
That Which Is Held
A Load of Shit
Mother
A Story for Aesop
The Ideal Palace
Imagine Paris
A Kind of Sharing
Christ of the Peasants
A Professional Secret
Ape Theatre
The Opposite of Naked
A Household
Drawing on Paper
Erogenous Zone
The Soul and the Operator
The Third Week of August, 1991

Appendices
Notes
SourcesJohn Berger was born in London in 1926. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight, include the Booker Prize-wining novelG.His new collection of essaysThe Shape of a Pockethas been published in 2001. John Berger now lives and works in a small village in the French Alps.The writing career of John Berger–poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist–has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger’s seminal essays.

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