Selected essays

by Berger, John

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Title Statements

Full title :Selected essays / John Berger ; edited by Geoff Dyer.

Summary

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. Berger's insights make it impossible to look at a painting, watch a film, or even visit a zoo in quite the same way again. The vast range of subjects he addresses, the lean beauty of his prose, and the keenness of his anger against injustice move us to view the world with a new lens of awareness. Whether he is discussing the singleminded intensity of Picasso's Guernica, the parallel violence and alienation in the art of Francis Bacon and Walt Disney, or the enigmatic silence of his own mother, what binds these pieces throughout is the depth and fury of Berger's passion, challenging us to participate, to protest, and above all, to see. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2003, ©2001.
Edition:1st Vintage International ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Vintage
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003, ©2001.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 588 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1299000169, 9781299000162, 9780307490704, 030749070X
oclc:ocn607268262
LC Classification:PR6052.E564
Dewey Decimal:824/.914

Selected essays from: Permanent Red (1960) (US title Toward Reality) -- The Moment of Cubism (1969) -- The Look of Things (1972) -- The Booker Prize Speech (1972) -- About Looking (1980) -- The White Bird (1985) (US title The Sense of Sight) -- Ulysses (1991) -- Keeping a Rendezvous (1992).