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John Berger

October 05, 2023

This article is about the English artist and writer. For other uses, see John Berger (disambiguation).

John Peter Berger (/ˈbɜːrdʒər/ BUR-jər; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, was influential. He lived in France for over fifty years.

John Berger
Berger in 2009
BornJohn Peter Berger[1]
(1926-11-05)5 November 1926
London, England
Died2 January 2017(2017-01-02) (aged 90)
Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • critic
  • painter
  • poet
LanguageEnglish
EducationSt Edward's School, Oxford
Alma materChelsea School of Art
Central School of Art and Design
GenreWriter
Notable awardsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize; Booker Prize (1972)
Children3

Early life Edit

Berger was born on 5 November 1926[1] in Stoke Newington, London,[2][3] the first of two children of Miriam and Stanley Berger.[4]

His grandfather was from Trieste, now Italy,[5] and his father, Stanley, raised as a non-religious Jew who adopted Catholicism,[6] had been an infantry officer on the Western Front during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross[3][7] and an OBE.[8]

Berger was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford.[9] He served in the British Army during the Second World War from 1944 to 1946.[10] He enrolled at the Chelsea School of Art[9] and the Central School of Art and Design in London.[10]

Career Edit

Berger began his career as a painter[11] and exhibited works at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s.[11][8] His art has been shown at the Wildenstein, Redfern and Leicester Galleries in London.[2]

Berger taught drawing at St Mary's teacher training college.[2] He later became an art critic, publishing many essays and reviews in the New Statesman.[2][12] His Marxist humanism[13] and his strongly stated opinions on modern art combined to make him a controversial figure early in his career.[14] As a statement of political commitment, he titled an early collection of essays Permanent Red.[15]

Berger was never a formal member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB): rather he was a close associate of it and its front, the Artists' International Association (AIA), until the latter disappeared in 1953. He was active in the Geneva Club, a discussion group that appears to have overlapped with British communist circles in the 1950s.[16]

Publishing Edit

In 1958, Berger published his first novel, A Painter of Our Time,[17] which tells the story of the disappearance of Janos Lavin, a fictional exiled Hungarian painter, and his diary's discovery by an art critic friend called John.[18] The work was withdrawn by the publisher under pressure from the Congress for Cultural Freedom a month after its publication.[8] His next novels were The Foot of Clive and Corker's Freedom;[2] both of which presented an urban English life of alienation and melancholy. Berger moved to Quincy in the Haute-Savoie, France, in 1962 due to his distaste for life in Britain.[2]

In 1972, the BBC broadcast his four-part television series Ways of Seeing[2][11][18] and published its accompanying text, a book of the same name. The first episode functions as an introduction to the study of images; it was derived in part from Walter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction".[19] The subsequent episodes concern the image of woman as a sexualized object in Western culture, expressions of property ownership and wealth in European oil painting, and modern advertising.[20] The series, the first of several close collaborations with director Mike Dibb, has had a lasting influence, and in particular introduced the concept of the male gaze, as part of his analysis of the treatment of the nude in European painting. It soon became popular among feminists, including the British film critic Laura Mulvey, who used it to critique traditional media representations of the female character in cinema.[21]

 
John Berger

Berger's novel G., a picaresque romance set in Europe in 1898, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize in 1972.[2][22]

Berger donated half the Booker cash prize to the British Black Panthers, and retained half to support his work on the study on migrant workers that became A Seventh Man, asserting that both endeavors represented aspects of his political struggle.[2][23] In his acceptance speech at the Booker Prize ceremony, Berger said the prize's sponsor Booker McConnell had a long history of slavery and exploitation in the Caribbean, and this was why he wanted to donate the money to the British Black Panthers and fund the writing of his book on migrant workers.[1]

Berger's sociological writings include A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor (1967)[24] and A Seventh Man: Migrant Workers in Europe (1975).[25]

Berger and photographer Jean Mohr, his frequent collaborator, sought to document and understand the experiences of peasants.[26][27]

Their subsequent book, Another Way of Telling, discusses and illustrates their documentary technique and treats the theory of photography through Berger's essays and Mohr's photographs.[28] His studies of individual artists include The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965), a survey of that modernist's career, and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969).[2]

In the 1970s, Berger collaborated on three films with the Swiss director Alain Tanner:[1][10] He wrote or co-wrote La Salamandre (1971), The Middle of the World (1974), and Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976).[29] His major fictional work of the 1980s, the trilogy Into Their Labours (consisting of the novels Pig Earth, Once in Europa, and Lilac and Flag),[4][30] treats the European peasant experience from its farming roots to contemporary economic and political displacement and urban poverty.[4][31] In 1974, Berger co-founded the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative Ltd in London with Arnold Wesker, Lisa Appignanesi, Richard Appignanesi, Chris Searle, Glenn Thompson, Siân Williams, and others.[32] The cooperative was active until the early 1980s.[33]

In later essays, Berger wrote about photography, art, politics, and memory. He published in The Shape of a Pocket a correspondence with Subcomandante Marcos,[34] and penned short stories that appeared in The Threepenny Review and The New Yorker. His sole volume of poetry is Pages of the Wound, though other volumes, such as the theoretical essays And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos contain poetry. His 2007 collection of essays on the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance, Hold Everything Dear, was titled after the poem by Gareth Evans. His later novels include To the Wedding, a love story dealing with the AIDS crisis,[7][35] and King: A Street Story, a novel about homelessness and shantytown life told from the perspective of a stray dog.[4][35] Initially, Berger insisted that his name be kept off the cover and title page of King, wanting the novel to be received on its own merits.[36]

Berger's 1980 volume About Looking includes an influential chapter, "Why Look at Animals?"[37] It is cited by numerous scholars in the interdisciplinary field of animal studies. The chapter was later reproduced in a Penguin Great Ideas selection of essays of the same title.[37]

Berger's novel From A to X was long-listed for the 2008 Booker Prize.[1][38] In Bento's Sketchbook (2011) Berger combines extracts from Baruch Spinoza, sketches, memoir, and observations in a book that contemplates the relationship of materialism to spirituality. According to Berger, what could be seen as a contradiction "is beautifully resolved by Spinoza, who shows that it is not a duality, but in fact an essential unity".[39] The book has been described as "a characteristically sui generis work combining an engagement with the thought of the 17th-century lens grinder, draughtsman, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza, with a study of drawing and a series of semi-autobiographical sketches".[39] Among his last works is Confabulations (essays, 2016).[7][40]

Other work Edit

In 1999, Berger voiced both twin brother characters Archie and Albert Crisp in the video game Grand Theft Auto: London 1969.[41]

He was a member of the Support Committee of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.[42]

Personal life Edit

Berger married three times,[2] first to artist and illustrator Patt Marriott in 1949; the marriage was childless and the couple divorced.[2] In the mid-1950s, he married the Russian Anya Bostock (née Anna Sisserman), with whom he had two children, Katya Berger and Jacob Berger; the couple divorced in the mid-1970s.[2] Soon afterwards, he married Beverly Bancroft, with whom he had one child, Yves.[2] Beverly died in 2013.[2]

Berger died at his home in Antony, France, on 2 January 2017 at the age of 90.[1][43][44]

Legacy Edit

In July 2009 Berger donated his archive of 369 files, nine boxes and one book to the British Library. The contents include literary manuscripts, drafts, unpublished material and correspondence.[45]

Awards Edit

Works Edit

Fiction Edit

Plays Edit

  • A Question of Geography (with Nella Bielski) (1987)[51][52]
  • Les Trois Chaleurs (1985)[53]
  • Boris (1983)[54]
  • Goya's Last Portrait (with Nella Bielski) (1989)[55]

Screenplays Edit

Poetry Edit

  • Pages of the Wound (1994)[59]
  • Collected Poems (2014)[60]

Other Edit

  • Marcel Frishman (with George Besson) (1958)[59]
  • Permanent Red (1960)[59] (Published in the United States in altered form in 1962 as Toward Reality: Essays in Seeing)
  • The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965)[31][12]
  • A Fortunate Man (with Jean Mohr) (1967)[59]
  • Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny And the Role of the Artist in the U.S.S.R (1969)[59]
  • The Moment of Cubism and Other Essays (1969)[59]
  • The Look of Things: Selected Essays and Articles (1972)[59]
  • Ways of Seeing[31] (with Mike Dibb, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox and Richard Hollis) (1972)
  • A Seventh Man (with Jean Mohr) (1975)[12]
  • About Looking (1980)[12]
  • Another Way of Telling (with Jean Mohr) (1982)[59]
  • And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos (1984)[59]
  • The White Bird (U.S. title: The Sense of Sight) (1985)[59]
  • Keeping a Rendezvous (1992)[59]
  • The Sense of Sight (1993)[61]
  • Albrecht Dürer: Watercolours and Drawings (1994)[62]
  • Titian: Nymph and Shepherd (with Katya Berger) (1996)[59]
  • Photocopies (1996)[2]
  • Isabelle: A Story in Shorts (with Nella Bielski) (1998)[59]
  • At the Edge of the World (with Jean Mohr) (1999)[63]
  • Selected Essays (Geoff Dyer, ed.) (2001)[59]
  • The Shape of a Pocket (2001)[59]
  • I Send You This Cadmium Red: A Correspondence between John Berger and John Christie (with John Christie) (2001)[64]
  • My Beautiful (with Marc Trivier) (2004)[65]
  • Berger on Drawing (2005)[66]
  • Here is Where We Meet (2005)[9]
  • Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (2007; 2nd ed. 2016)[67]
  • The Red Tenda of Bologna (2007)[68]
  • War with No End (with Naomi Klein, Hanif Kureishi, Arundhati Roy, Ahdaf Soueif, Joe Sacco and Haifa Zangana) (2007)[69]
  • Meanwhile (2008)[7]
  • Why Look at Animals? (2009)[70]
  • From I to J (with Isabel Coixet) (2009)[71]
  • Lying Down to Sleep (with Katya Berger) (2010)[72]
  • Railtracks (with Anne Michaels) (2011)[73]
  • Bento's Sketchbook (2011)[74]
  • Cataract (with Selçuk Demirel) (2012)[75]
  • Understanding a Photograph (Geoff Dyer, ed.) (2013)[76]
  • Daumier: The Heroism of Modern Life (2013)[77]
  • Flying Skirts: An Elegy (with Yves Berger) (2014)[78]
  • Portraits: John Berger on Artists (Tom Overton, ed.) (2015)[55]
  • Cuatro horizontes (Four Horizons) (with Sister Lucia Kuppens, Sister Telchilde Hinkley and John Christie) (2015)[79]
  • Lapwing & Fox (Conversations between John Berger and John Christie) (2016)[80]
  • Confabulations (Essays) (2016)[12]
  • Landscapes: John Berger on Art (Tom Overton, ed.) (2016)[81]
  • John by Jean: Fifty Years of Friendship (Jean Mohr, ed.) (2016)[82]
  • A Sparrow's Journey: John Berger Reads Andrey Platonov (CD: 44:34 & 81-page book with Robert Chandler and Gareth Evans), London: House Sparrow Press in association with the London Review Bookshop (2016)[83]
  • Smoke (with Selçuk Demirel) (2017)
  • Seeing Through Drawing (with John Christie) (2017). The book, published by OBJECTIF, features new texts by and about John Berger plus a catalogue section of images, information and stories from the invited artists in the main exhibition held on 8 July – 26 August 2017 at Mandell's Gallery, Norwich. It contains two previously unpublished sequences of correspondence on art and communications between John Berger and his daughter Katya Berger Andreadakis along with tributes and stories from: Anne Michaels, Yves Berger, Eulàlia Bosch, Geoff Dyer, Gareth Evans, Paul Gordon and Tom Overton. The book also features a compilation of writings on the art and practice of drawing collected together by John Christie, from across John Berger's art criticism, fiction, essays and letters.
  • What Time Is It? (with Selçuk Demirel) (Maria Nadotti, ed.) (2019)
  • Swimming Pool (with Leon Kossoff) (Introduction by Deborah Levy. Postscript by Yves Berger. Berger's Texts selected by Teresa Pintó. Book design by John Christie) (2020)

Film Edit

  • The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2016), directed by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth and Bartek Dziadosz.

Reviews Edit

  • Harkness, Allan (1983), Berger: A Seventh Man?, review of A Seventh Man and Another Way of Telling, in Hearn, Sheila G.(ed.), Cencrastus No. 12, Spring 1983, pp. 46 & 47, ISSN 0264-0856

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Further reading Edit

  • Sperling, Joshua (2018) A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger
  • Bounds, Philip "Beyond : The Media Criticism of John Berger" in Philip Bounds and Mala Jagmohan (eds), Recharting Media Studies, Peter Lang 2008, ISBN 978-3-03911-015-5
  • Dyer, Geoff Ways of Telling: The Work of John Berger, ISBN 0-7453-0097-9.
  • Dyer, Geoff (Ed.) John Berger, Selected Essays, Bloomsbury. ISBN 0-375-71318-2.
  • Fuller, Peter (1980) Seeing Berger. A Revaluation of , Writers and Readers. ISBN 0-906495-48-2.
  • Hertel, Ralf and David Malcolm (eds.), On John Berger: Telling Stories. Leiden: Brill, 2015. ISBN 978-90-04-30612-7.
  • Hochschild, Adam Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels (Syracuse University Press, 1997), "Broad Jumper in the Alps," pp. 50–64.
  • Krautz, Jochen Vom Sinn des Sichtbaren. John Bergers Ästhetik und Ethik als Impuls für die Kunstpädagogik am Beispiel der Fotografie, Hamburg 2004 (Dr. Kovac) ISBN 3-8300-1287-X.
  • Merrifield, Andy John Berger, London: Reaktion Books, 2012. ISBN 978-1-86189-904-0
  • Papastergiadis, Nikos Modernity as exile: The stranger in John Berger's writing (Manchester University Press, 1993) ISBN 0-7190-3876-6
  • Chandan, Amarjit; Evans, Gareth; Gunaratnam, Yasmin (Eds.) The Long White Thread of Words: Poems for John Berger, Ripon: Smokestack Books, 2016. ISBN 978-0-9934547-4-5
  • Chandan, Amarjit; Gunaratnam, Yasmin (Eds.) A Jar of Wild Flowers: Essays in Celebration of John Berger, London: Zed Books, 2016. ISBN 978-1-78360-879-9

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  • John Berger Archive at the British Library

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This article is about the English artist and writer For other uses see John Berger disambiguation John Peter Berger ˈ b ɜːr dʒ er BUR jer 5 November 1926 2 January 2017 was an English art critic novelist painter and poet His novel G won the 1972 Booker Prize and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name was influential He lived in France for over fifty years John BergerBerger in 2009BornJohn Peter Berger 1 1926 11 05 5 November 1926London EnglandDied2 January 2017 2017 01 02 aged 90 Antony Hauts de Seine FranceOccupationNovelistcriticpainterpoetLanguageEnglishEducationSt Edward s School OxfordAlma materChelsea School of ArtCentral School of Art and DesignGenreWriterNotable awardsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize Booker Prize 1972 Children3 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Publishing 4 Other work 5 Personal life 6 Legacy 7 Awards 8 Works 8 1 Fiction 8 2 Plays 8 3 Screenplays 8 4 Poetry 8 5 Other 8 6 Film 9 Reviews 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External linksEarly life EditBerger was born on 5 November 1926 1 in Stoke Newington London 2 3 the first of two children of Miriam and Stanley Berger 4 His grandfather was from Trieste now Italy 5 and his father Stanley raised as a non religious Jew who adopted Catholicism 6 had been an infantry officer on the Western Front during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross 3 7 and an OBE 8 Berger was educated at St Edward s School Oxford 9 He served in the British Army during the Second World War from 1944 to 1946 10 He enrolled at the Chelsea School of Art 9 and the Central School of Art and Design in London 10 Career EditBerger began his career as a painter 11 and exhibited works at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s 11 8 His art has been shown at the Wildenstein Redfern and Leicester Galleries in London 2 Berger taught drawing at St Mary s teacher training college 2 He later became an art critic publishing many essays and reviews in the New Statesman 2 12 His Marxist humanism 13 and his strongly stated opinions on modern art combined to make him a controversial figure early in his career 14 As a statement of political commitment he titled an early collection of essays Permanent Red 15 Berger was never a formal member of the Communist Party of Great Britain CPGB rather he was a close associate of it and its front the Artists International Association AIA until the latter disappeared in 1953 He was active in the Geneva Club a discussion group that appears to have overlapped with British communist circles in the 1950s 16 Publishing EditIn 1958 Berger published his first novel A Painter of Our Time 17 which tells the story of the disappearance of Janos Lavin a fictional exiled Hungarian painter and his diary s discovery by an art critic friend called John 18 The work was withdrawn by the publisher under pressure from the Congress for Cultural Freedom a month after its publication 8 His next novels were The Foot of Clive and Corker s Freedom 2 both of which presented an urban English life of alienation and melancholy Berger moved to Quincy in the Haute Savoie France in 1962 due to his distaste for life in Britain 2 In 1972 the BBC broadcast his four part television series Ways of Seeing 2 11 18 and published its accompanying text a book of the same name The first episode functions as an introduction to the study of images it was derived in part from Walter Benjamin s essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 19 The subsequent episodes concern the image of woman as a sexualized object in Western culture expressions of property ownership and wealth in European oil painting and modern advertising 20 The series the first of several close collaborations with director Mike Dibb has had a lasting influence and in particular introduced the concept of the male gaze as part of his analysis of the treatment of the nude in European painting It soon became popular among feminists including the British film critic Laura Mulvey who used it to critique traditional media representations of the female character in cinema 21 nbsp John BergerBerger s novel G a picaresque romance set in Europe in 1898 won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize in 1972 2 22 Berger donated half the Booker cash prize to the British Black Panthers and retained half to support his work on the study on migrant workers that became A Seventh Man asserting that both endeavors represented aspects of his political struggle 2 23 In his acceptance speech at the Booker Prize ceremony Berger said the prize s sponsor Booker McConnell had a long history of slavery and exploitation in the Caribbean and this was why he wanted to donate the money to the British Black Panthers and fund the writing of his book on migrant workers 1 Berger s sociological writings include A Fortunate Man The Story of a Country Doctor 1967 24 and A Seventh Man Migrant Workers in Europe 1975 25 Berger and photographer Jean Mohr his frequent collaborator sought to document and understand the experiences of peasants 26 27 Their subsequent book Another Way of Telling discusses and illustrates their documentary technique and treats the theory of photography through Berger s essays and Mohr s photographs 28 His studies of individual artists include The Success and Failure of Picasso 1965 a survey of that modernist s career and Art and Revolution Ernst Neizvestny Endurance and the Role of the Artist in the USSR 1969 2 In the 1970s Berger collaborated on three films with the Swiss director Alain Tanner 1 10 He wrote or co wrote La Salamandre 1971 The Middle of the World 1974 and Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 1976 29 His major fictional work of the 1980s the trilogy Into Their Labours consisting of the novels Pig Earth Once in Europa and Lilac and Flag 4 30 treats the European peasant experience from its farming roots to contemporary economic and political displacement and urban poverty 4 31 In 1974 Berger co founded the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative Ltd in London with Arnold Wesker Lisa Appignanesi Richard Appignanesi Chris Searle Glenn Thompson Sian Williams and others 32 The cooperative was active until the early 1980s 33 In later essays Berger wrote about photography art politics and memory He published in The Shape of a Pocket a correspondence with Subcomandante Marcos 34 and penned short stories that appeared in The Threepenny Review and The New Yorker His sole volume of poetry is Pages of the Wound though other volumes such as the theoretical essays And Our Faces My Heart Brief as Photos contain poetry His 2007 collection of essays on the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance Hold Everything Dear was titled after the poem by Gareth Evans His later novels include To the Wedding a love story dealing with the AIDS crisis 7 35 and King A Street Story a novel about homelessness and shantytown life told from the perspective of a stray dog 4 35 Initially Berger insisted that his name be kept off the cover and title page of King wanting the novel to be received on its own merits 36 Berger s 1980 volume About Looking includes an influential chapter Why Look at Animals 37 It is cited by numerous scholars in the interdisciplinary field of animal studies The chapter was later reproduced in a Penguin Great Ideas selection of essays of the same title 37 Berger s novel From A to X was long listed for the 2008 Booker Prize 1 38 In Bento s Sketchbook 2011 Berger combines extracts from Baruch Spinoza sketches memoir and observations in a book that contemplates the relationship of materialism to spirituality According to Berger what could be seen as a contradiction is beautifully resolved by Spinoza who shows that it is not a duality but in fact an essential unity 39 The book has been described as a characteristically sui generis work combining an engagement with the thought of the 17th century lens grinder draughtsman and philosopher Baruch Spinoza with a study of drawing and a series of semi autobiographical sketches 39 Among his last works is Confabulations essays 2016 7 40 Other work EditIn 1999 Berger voiced both twin brother characters Archie and Albert Crisp in the video game Grand Theft Auto London 1969 41 He was a member of the Support Committee of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine 42 Personal life EditBerger married three times 2 first to artist and illustrator Patt Marriott in 1949 the marriage was childless and the couple divorced 2 In the mid 1950s he married the Russian Anya Bostock nee Anna Sisserman with whom he had two children Katya Berger and Jacob Berger the couple divorced in the mid 1970s 2 Soon afterwards he married Beverly Bancroft with whom he had one child Yves 2 Beverly died in 2013 2 Berger died at his home in Antony France on 2 January 2017 at the age of 90 1 43 44 Legacy EditIn July 2009 Berger donated his archive of 369 files nine boxes and one book to the British Library The contents include literary manuscripts drafts unpublished material and correspondence 45 Awards Edit1972 Booker Prize 46 1972 James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2 1991 Petrarca Preis 47 2009 Golden PEN Award 48 49 Works EditFiction Edit A Painter of Our Time 1958 9 The Foot of Clive 1962 2 Corker s Freedom 1964 2 G 1972 31 Into Their Labours trilogy 1991 Pig Earth 1979 Once in Europa 1987 Lilac and Flag 1990 4 31 To the Wedding 1995 9 King A Street Story 1999 4 From A to X 2008 50 Plays Edit A Question of Geography with Nella Bielski 1987 51 52 Les Trois Chaleurs 1985 53 Boris 1983 54 Goya s Last Portrait with Nella Bielski 1989 55 Screenplays Edit Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 with Alain Tanner 1976 31 12 La Salamandre The Salamander with Alain Tanner 1971 56 Le Milieu du monde The Middle of the World with Alain Tanner 1974 56 Play Me Something with Timothy Neat 1989 57 Une ville a Chandigarh A City at Chandigarh 1966 58 Poetry Edit Pages of the Wound 1994 59 Collected Poems 2014 60 Other Edit Marcel Frishman with George Besson 1958 59 Permanent Red 1960 59 Published in the United States in altered form in 1962 as Toward Reality Essays in Seeing The Success and Failure of Picasso 1965 31 12 A Fortunate Man with Jean Mohr 1967 59 Art and Revolution Ernst Neizvestny And the Role of the Artist in the U S S R 1969 59 The Moment of Cubism and Other Essays 1969 59 The Look of Things Selected Essays and Articles 1972 59 Ways of Seeing 31 with Mike Dibb Sven Blomberg Chris Fox and Richard Hollis 1972 A Seventh Man with Jean Mohr 1975 12 About Looking 1980 12 Another Way of Telling with Jean Mohr 1982 59 And Our Faces My Heart Brief as Photos 1984 59 The White Bird U S title The Sense of Sight 1985 59 Keeping a Rendezvous 1992 59 The Sense of Sight 1993 61 Albrecht Durer Watercolours and Drawings 1994 62 Titian Nymph and Shepherd with Katya Berger 1996 59 Photocopies 1996 2 Isabelle A Story in Shorts with Nella Bielski 1998 59 At the Edge of the World with Jean Mohr 1999 63 Selected Essays Geoff Dyer ed 2001 59 The Shape of a Pocket 2001 59 I Send You This Cadmium Red A Correspondence between John Berger and John Christie with John Christie 2001 64 My Beautiful with Marc Trivier 2004 65 Berger on Drawing 2005 66 Here is Where We Meet 2005 9 Hold Everything Dear Dispatches on Survival and Resistance 2007 2nd ed 2016 67 The Red Tenda of Bologna 2007 68 War with No End with Naomi Klein Hanif Kureishi Arundhati Roy Ahdaf Soueif Joe Sacco and Haifa Zangana 2007 69 Meanwhile 2008 7 Why Look at Animals 2009 70 From I to J with Isabel Coixet 2009 71 Lying Down to Sleep with Katya Berger 2010 72 Railtracks with Anne Michaels 2011 73 Bento s Sketchbook 2011 74 Cataract with Selcuk Demirel 2012 75 Understanding a Photograph Geoff Dyer ed 2013 76 Daumier The Heroism of Modern Life 2013 77 Flying Skirts An Elegy with Yves Berger 2014 78 Portraits John Berger on Artists Tom Overton ed 2015 55 Cuatro horizontes Four Horizons with Sister Lucia Kuppens Sister Telchilde Hinkley and John Christie 2015 79 Lapwing amp Fox Conversations between John Berger and John Christie 2016 80 Confabulations Essays 2016 12 Landscapes John Berger on Art Tom Overton ed 2016 81 John by Jean Fifty Years of Friendship Jean Mohr ed 2016 82 A Sparrow s Journey John Berger Reads Andrey Platonov CD 44 34 amp 81 page book with Robert Chandler and Gareth Evans London House Sparrow Press in association with the London Review Bookshop 2016 83 Smoke with Selcuk Demirel 2017 Seeing Through Drawing with John Christie 2017 The book published by OBJECTIF features new texts by and about John Berger plus a catalogue section of images information and stories from the invited artists in the main exhibition held on 8 July 26 August 2017 at Mandell s Gallery Norwich It contains two previously unpublished sequences of correspondence on art and communications between John Berger and his daughter Katya Berger Andreadakis along with tributes and stories from Anne Michaels Yves Berger Eulalia Bosch Geoff Dyer Gareth Evans Paul Gordon and Tom Overton The book also features a compilation of writings on the art and practice of drawing collected together by John Christie from across John Berger s art criticism fiction essays and letters What Time Is It with Selcuk Demirel Maria Nadotti ed 2019 Swimming Pool with Leon Kossoff Introduction by Deborah Levy Postscript by Yves Berger Berger s Texts selected by Teresa Pinto Book design by John Christie 2020 Film Edit The Seasons in Quincy Four Portraits of John Berger 2016 directed by Tilda Swinton Colin MacCabe Christopher Roth and Bartek Dziadosz Reviews EditHarkness Allan 1983 Berger A Seventh Man review of A Seventh Man and Another Way of Telling in Hearn Sheila G ed Cencrastus No 12 Spring 1983 pp 46 amp 47 ISSN 0264 0856References Edit a b c d e John Berger Provocative Art Critic Dies at 90 The New York Times 2 January 2017 Retrieved 3 January 2017 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s John Berger obituary The Guardian 2 January 2017 Retrieved 3 January 2017 a b I think the dead are with us John Berger at 88 The New Statesman 11 June 2015 Retrieved 3 January 2017 a b c d e f Contented exile The Guardian 13 February 1999 Retrieved 3 January 2017 The Books Interview John Berger The Books Interview John Berger accessdate 2 January 2017 Andy Merrifield John Berger Reaktion Books 2013 p 29 a b c d John Berger If I m a storyteller it s because I listen The Guardian 30 October 2016 Retrieved 3 January 2017 a b c Duncan O Connor Literary Encyclopedia John Berger Litencyc com Retrieved 3 January 2017 a b c d e A radical returns The Guardian 3 April 2005 Retrieved 4 January 2017 a b c Ray Ed Mohit K 2007 The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English Atlantic Publishers p 48 ISBN 978 81 269 0832 5 a b c John Berger art critic and author of Ways of Seeing dies BBC 2 January 2017 Retrieved 3 January 2017 a b c d e f John Berger influential British art critic novelist dies at 90 The Washington Post 3 January 2017 Retrieved 4 January 2017 Berger John Peter arthistorians info A Smuggling Operation John Berger s Theory of Art LARB 2 January 2017 Retrieved 5 January 2017 The Many Faces of John Berger New Republic 30 December 2015 Retrieved 5 January 2017 Parker Lawrence 2 February 2017 Berger and Stalinism Weekly Worker Retrieved 19 January 2018 John Berger art critic and author dies aged 90 The Guardian 2 January 2017 Retrieved 3 January 2017 a b John Berger Five key works by the late art critic The Week 3 January 2017 Retrieved 4 January 2017 Berger John 1972 Ways of Seeing London BBC and Penguin Books p 34 ISBN 0 14 191798 9 Berger John writer and Michael Dibb producer Ways of Seeing British Broadcasting Corporation 1972 A Companion to Women in the Ancient World edited by Sharon L James Sheila Dillon p 75 2012 Wiley ISBN 1 4443 5500 7 9781444355000 G The Booker Prizes 8 June 1972 Retrieved 7 November 2022 McNay Michael 24 November 1972 Berger turns tables on Booker The Guardian London Retrieved 5 December 2009 John Berger s A Fortunate Man a masterpiece of witness The Guardian 7 February 2015 Retrieved 4 January 2017 A Seventh Man Migrant Workers in Europe by John Berger and Jean Mohr review The Guardian 18 December 2010 Retrieved 4 January 2017 Berger John Mohr Jean Blomberg Sven 2010 A Seventh Man A Book of Images and Words about the Experience of Migrant Workers in Europe Verso ISBN 978 1 84467 649 1 Read an excerpt from the book here Berger John 1975 The Seventh Man Race amp Class 16 2 251 257 doi 10 1177 030639687501600303 S2CID 144922808 ANOTHER WAY OF TELLING Penguin Random House Christian Dimitriu Alain Tanner Paris Henri Veyrier 1985 pp 125 134 On John Berger Telling Stories BRILL 2015 p 24 ISBN 978 90 04 30811 4 a b c d e f LOVE AMONG THE PEASANTRY The New York Times 5 April 1987 Retrieved 4 January 2017 Libros para Principiantes Quienes somos Paraprincipiantes com Retrieved 3 January 2017 Remembering Glenn Thompson African American Literature Book Club Retrieved 5 January 2017 Morreu John Berger um artista e um espectador total Publico 2 January 2017 Retrieved 4 January 2017 a b Hertel Ralf 2005 Making Sense Sense Perception in the British Novel of the 1980s and 1990s Rodopi p 74 ISBN 978 90 420 1864 8 Portrait of the artist as a wild old man The Telegraph 23 July 2001 Retrieved 4 January 2017 a b McCance Dawne 2013 Critical Animal Studies An Introduction SUNY Press p 45 ISBN 978 1 4384 4534 2 Michelle Pauli Booker longlist boost for first time novelists the Guardian Retrieved 2 January 2015 a b Wroe Nicholas 22 April 2011 John Berger a life in writing The Guardian Retrieved 22 August 2021 John Berger dead Booker Prize winning author and art critic dies aged 90 Independent 2 January 2017 Retrieved 4 January 2017 RIP John Berger Famous British Novelist Art Critic and Secret GTA London Villain Rockstar Games 3 January 2017 Retrieved 4 January 2017 Patrons Russell Tribunal on Palestine www russelltribunalonpalestine com Retrieved 8 January 2017 John Berger art critic and author dies aged 90 The Guardian 2 January 2017 John Berger pioneering art critic and author dies at 90 Associated Press 2 January 2017 Archived from the original on 3 January 2017 Retrieved 2 January 2017 John Berger Archive archives and manuscripts catalogue the British Library Retrieved 7 May 2020 Booker prize winning author John Berger dies aged 90 The Telegraph 2 January 2017 Retrieved 3 January 2017 Burkle Christoph 2006 Johann Sebastian Bach der geometrische Komponist Issues 764 766 Niggli p 83 ISBN 978 3 03717 022 9 Catherine Neilan 8 December 2009 Berger picks up Golden PEN award The Bookseller Retrieved 3 December 2012 Golden Pen Award official website English PEN Archived from the original on 21 November 2012 Retrieved 3 December 2012 From A to X A Story in Letters by John Berge The New York Times 31 October 2008 Retrieved 4 January 2017 Soja Edward W 1989 Postmodern Geographies The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory illustrated reprint ed Verso p 21 ISBN 978 0 86091 936 0 Merrifield Andy 2013 John Berger illustrated ed Reaktion Books p 159 ISBN 978 1 86189 942 2 John Berger www lesarchivesduspectacle net 5 November 1926 John Berger Boris Granta 9 1 September 1983 a b Portraits John Berger on Artists www brooklynrail org 3 February 2016 a b Talbot Toby 2010 The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies illustrated ed Columbia University Press p 110 ISBN 978 0 231 51982 3 Tilda Swinton on making The Seasons in Quincy four short films about maverick artist and thinker John Berger Independent 15 February 2016 Retrieved 4 January 2017 The glory and the dream The Indian Express 13 March 2016 Retrieved 4 January 2017 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o The International Who s Who 2004 Psychology Press 2003 p 150 ISBN 978 1 85743 217 6 A review of John Berger s Collected Poems The Hindu 10 October 2015 Retrieved 5 January 2017 Sense of Sight By John Berger Penguin Random House Albrecht Durer Watercolours and Drawings Taschen 1994 ISBN 978 3 8228 8575 8 At the Edge of the World Reaktion Books Archived from the original on 6 January 2017 Retrieved 5 January 2017 I Send You this Cadmium Red A Correspondence Between John Berger and John Christie ACTAR 2000 ISBN 978 84 95273 32 1 My Beautiful Mondadori Bruno 2008 ISBN 978 88 6159 114 1 Berger on Drawing Occasional Press 2005 ISBN 978 0 9548976 1 1 Hold Everything Dear Dispatches on Survival and Resistance Verso 2008 ISBN 978 1 84467 254 7 John Berger limited edition www thedrawbridge org Archived from the original on 4 August 2016 Retrieved 5 January 2017 War With No End Penguin Random House Why Look at Animals by John Berger The Guardian 19 September 2009 Retrieved 4 January 2017 From I to J Actar D Bruno 2009 Lying Down to Sleep Maurizio Corraini 2010 ISBN 978 88 7570 261 8 Railtracks Counterpoint 2013 ISBN 978 1 61902 072 6 John Berger on Bento s Sketchbook The Paris Review 22 November 2011 Retrieved 4 January 2017 Review Cataract www macleans ca John Berger Understanding a Photograph Aperture ISBN 978 1 59711 256 7 Daumier The Heroism of Modern Life Harry N Abrams 2013 ISBN 978 1 907533 32 7 Flying Skirts An Elegy Occasional Press 2015 ISBN 978 0 9564786 9 6 Cuatro horizontes Una visita a la capilla de Ronchamp de Le Corbusier ggili com Archived from the original on 17 March 2016 Lapwing amp Fox conversations between John Berger and John Christie www a n co uk Landscapes John Berger on Art By John Berger Penguin Random House John by Jean Fifty Years of Friendship www occasionalpress net Archived from the original on 15 August 2006 A Sparrow s Journey John Berger reads Andrey Platonov House Sparrow Press Further reading EditSperling Joshua 2018 A Writer of Our Time The Life and Work of John Berger Bounds Philip Beyond The Media Criticism of John Berger in Philip Bounds and Mala Jagmohan eds Recharting Media Studies Peter Lang 2008 ISBN 978 3 03911 015 5 Dyer Geoff Ways of Telling The Work of John Berger ISBN 0 7453 0097 9 Dyer Geoff Ed John Berger Selected Essays Bloomsbury ISBN 0 375 71318 2 Fuller Peter 1980 Seeing Berger A Revaluation of Writers and Readers ISBN 0 906495 48 2 Hertel Ralf and David Malcolm eds On John Berger Telling Stories Leiden Brill 2015 ISBN 978 90 04 30612 7 Hochschild Adam Finding the Trapdoor Essays Portraits Travels Syracuse University Press 1997 Broad Jumper in the Alps pp 50 64 Krautz Jochen Vom Sinn des Sichtbaren John Bergers Asthetik und Ethik als Impuls fur die Kunstpadagogik am Beispiel der Fotografie Hamburg 2004 Dr Kovac ISBN 3 8300 1287 X Merrifield Andy John Berger London Reaktion Books 2012 ISBN 978 1 86189 904 0 Papastergiadis Nikos Modernity as exile The stranger in John Berger s writing Manchester University Press 1993 ISBN 0 7190 3876 6 Chandan Amarjit Evans Gareth Gunaratnam Yasmin Eds The Long White Thread of Words Poems for John Berger Ripon Smokestack Books 2016 ISBN 978 0 9934547 4 5 Chandan Amarjit Gunaratnam Yasmin Eds A Jar of Wild Flowers Essays in Celebration of John Berger London Zed Books 2016 ISBN 978 1 78360 879 9External links Edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to John Berger nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to John Berger Postscript John Berger 1926 2017 Introduction to John Berger on Picasso Mike Gonzalez in International Socialism 40 1988 Defending Picasso s late work by John Berger International Socialism 40 1988 Verso Books author page John Berger Archive at the British Library Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title John Berger amp oldid 1178639335, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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