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Selected Essays of John Berger
John Berger
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 10 Décembre 2008
- 9780307490704
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The Shape of a Pocket
John Berger
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 9 Septembre 2009
- 9780307490841
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, Paleolithi...
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As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we se...
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In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prizewinning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal manone who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when illn...
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Another Way of Telling
John Berger
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 13 Juillet 2011
- 9780307794192
"There are no photographs which can be denied. All photographs have the status of fact. What is to be examined is in what way photography can and cannot give meaning to facts." With these words, two of our most thoughtful and eloquent interrogators of the visual offer a singular meditation on the am...
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A blind Greek peddler tells the story of the wedding between a fellow peddler and his bride in a remarkable series of vivid and telling vignettes. As the book cinematically moves from one character's perspective to another, events and characters move toward the convergence of the wedding--and a haun...
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The Sense of Sight
John Berger
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 13 Juillet 2011
- 9780307794215
With this provocative and infinitely moving collection of essays, a preeminent critic of our time responds to the profound questions posed by the visual world. For when John Berger writes about Cubism, he writes not only of Braque, Léger, Picasso, and Gris, but of that incredible moment early in thi...
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With this haunting first volume of his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of skeptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women; of ...
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And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
John Berger
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 13 Juillet 2011
- 9780307794253
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A luminous collection of interwoven stories,yes'>#160;Once in Europa is a portrait of two worldsyes'>minus;a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, futuredriven culture that will invade ityes'>minus;at their moment of collision. The instrument of entrapment is lo...
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A Painter of Our Time
John Berger
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 13 Juillet 2011
- 9780307794284
This visionary first novel by the Booker Prizewinning author of To the Wedding and G. is at once a gripping intellectual and moral detective story and a book whose aesthetic insights make it a companion piece to John Berger's great works of art criticism.From the Trade Paperback edition. ...
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Keeping a Rendezvous
John Berger
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 13 Juillet 2011
- 9780307794291
When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, John Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. A photograph of a gravely joyful crowd gathered on a Prague street in November 1989 provokes reflection on the meaning of democracy and the reunion o...
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Art and Revolution
John Berger
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 13 Juillet 2011
- 9780307794314
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Berger presents a collection of moments, each supremely vivid, that together make up a frieze of human history at the end of the millennium as well as a subtle and affecting selfportrait of their author. Using careful, intensely visual prose snapping frozen vignettes of life, these twentynine "photo...
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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 i...
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Bento's Sketchbook
John Berger
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 8 Novembre 2011
- 9780307906922
The author continues his exploration of the relationship between experience and expression, tracing the stories behind works of visual art including the mythological sketchbooks of philosopher Baruch Spinoza to counsel readers on alternate ways of seeingthe world. ...
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Here Is Where We Meet
John Berger
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 18 Décembre 2007
- 9780307426215
One of the most widely admired writers of our time returns us to the captivating play and narrative allure of his previous novels-G. and To the Wedding among them-with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated...
