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  • Ways of Seeing

    by John Berger ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Bento's Sketchbook

    by John Berger ...
    Series series The Essential John Berger
    A deeply moving exploration of the relationship between thinking and drawing, from the author of the groundbreaking Ways of SeeingThe seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notes—but no drawings.For years, without ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Look of Things

    by John Berger ...
    A brilliant collection of Berger's early works including the essential essay on the relationship of drawing and the artist.This anthology of some of John Berger’s most incisive and brilliant essays and articles, written throughout the 1960s, is one of his most celebrated books. The pieces span from the life of artists like Camille Corot and Fernand Léger; character sketches of the likes of Le ... Read more

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  • Landscapes

    John Berger on Art

    by John Berger ...
    “Essential reading”—n+1Creative and political art criticism on landscape works from the Renaissance to the present from a “master” storyteller (Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things)In this brilliant collection of diverse pieces—essays, short stories, poems, translations—which spans a lifetime’s engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing. He ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Portraits

    by John Berger ...
    “A rich and lovely exploration of art history” from the world-renowned art critic behind Ways of Seeing (Slate)!A diverse cast of artists comes to life in this jargon-free study Zadie Smith hails as “among the greatest books on art I’ve ever read.”One of the world’s most celebrated art writers takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • G.

    by John Berger ...
    In this luminous novel about a modern Don Juan, John Berger relates the story of G., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the last century as Europe teeters on the brink of war.With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what happens during sex, to reveal the conditions of the libertine's success: his ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD

  • Keeping a Rendezvous

    by John Berger ...
    John Berger’s intimate meditations on what is past, passing, and to comeBeginning each essay with an image, Keeping a Rendezvous examines the nature of the artistic encounter. Berger delves into questions of political struggle, the utility of hope, our relationship to images, and the role of art in our lives. By communing with the artists, revolutionaries and thinkers of the past, he shows how ... Read more

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  • Permanent Red

    Essays in Seeing

    by John Berger ...
    Series series The Essential John Berger
    Why should an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist’s intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is politicalIn Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the work of historical artists as well as that of near contemporaries such as ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Hold Everything Dear

    Dispatches on Survival and Resistance

    by John Berger ...
    Series series The Essential John Berger
    A powerful meditation on political resistance and the global search for justiceFrom the ‘War on Terror’ to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despair. Looking at ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Shape of a Pocket

    by John Berger ...
    John Berger writes: 'The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. The people coming together are the reader, me and those the essays are about - Rembrandt, Palaeolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient Egyptians, an expert in the ... Read more

    $14.69 CAD

  • A Painter of our Time

    by John Berger ...
    Series series The Essential John Berger
    The Booker Prize winner’s poignant debut novel, a meditation on the interplay between art, exile and politicsExiled with his wife in 1950s London, Hungarian artist Janos Lavin struggles to find financial stability and artistic freedom in his new home. A friend, John, organises an exhibition of Lavin’s work, only for the artist to disappear shortly after. John tries to figure out what happened, ... Read more

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  • About Looking

    by John Berger ...
    The centenary edition, with a newly commissioned introduction by Berger's biographer, Tom Overton.'Instant readability . . . [Berger] makes one see [paintings] as statements or questions in a living language.' New Statesman'One of the most influential intellectuals of our time' Observer'Berger is a writer one demands to know more about . . . an intriguing and powerful mind and talent'</strong... ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD