Exploring John Berger's political and creative praxis for scholarship on space, place, landscape and spatial experience, Ben Garlick and Dubravka Sekulic critically engage with his work as a writer, critic, collaborator, playwright, filmmaker and artist.The contributors connect Berger's work to cultural geography, including through a photo essay that articulates personal encounters with place, as well as discussion of his notion of “confabulation” and what it offer...

A magisterial biography of novelist and critic John Berger, whose work—including Ways of Seeing and the Booker-prize winning G.—revolutionized the critical tradition in the twentieth centuryThe Storyteller began with conversations between the author and subject while Overton catalogued Berger’s archive at the British Library. Overton then, naturally, drew in the perspectives of friends, family, and collaborators. But at the center of this...

“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 cast of artists. Berger groun...

“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 pays homage to the writers an...

She thought it was over… She was wrong…George Assenby is dead.That’s what Samantha Overton was told.That’s what she believes… until the phone rings.Now George is back… watching, waiting, and pulling strings from the shadows. He knows too much. About her life. Her family. Her past. And he’s not just playing games, he’s rebuilding.Forced into a dangerous web of secrets and lies, Sam is sent chasing answers that only le...

Paesaggi è la più completa raccolta degli scritti di John Berger dedicati all'arte e alla letteratura. Chi è alla ricerca di un ponderoso volume di critica, con quadri monografici e rigide periodizzazioni, dovrebbe guardare altrove; chi invece è già un lettore di questo «rinascimentale uomo contemporaneo» si stupirà ancora una volta di tanta varietà di saggi, poesie, racconti e meditazioni, ritrovando lo sguardo di uno storyteller che mai ha inteso la scrittura come un atto di possesso, ma...

Para movernos sobre un territorio podemos disponer de guías y mapas, o pisar directamente el terreno. Este es el planteamiento del que parte Panorámicas, un recorrido por las guías y mapas con los que John Berger reformuló su mirada del arte, así como por sus impresiones y reflexiones surgidas directamente de lo artístico, lo social y lo político. En la estela de los imprescindibles retratos recogidos en Sobre los artistas, Panorámicas presenta una brillante antología de piezas muy diversa...

"This tale... will keep you riveted to every word, every page as Maggie Thom weaves a brilliant cloth of the many colors of deceit." Dii (Tome Tender)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Some secrets are worth killing for.Fired from her job as a reporter, Sam Overton retreats to her family's abandoned lake cabin—the last place she saw her father alive over twenty years ago. She's been told he’d committed suicide, but the memories that surface don't ad...