An illuminating new life of the peerless thinker, artist and author of Ways of SeeingTom Overton got to know John Berger around 2010, after he gave his archive to the British Library: a kind of homecoming to the city of his birth, after a life lived mostly in self-imposed exile in Switzerland and France. Curious about the origin of a piece of writing or art, Tom would scan something in and email it. Then there’d come a call, very early, very late. ‘Hello? ...

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...

John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artists. Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both canonized and obscure, from Rembrandt to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. The result is an illuminating walk thr...

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...

Landscapes showcases the development and practice of John Berger's unique way of seeing. Here he surveys the aesthetic landscapes that have informed, challenged and nourished his understanding of the world.Berger pays homage to the writers and thinkers who influenced him, such as Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg and Bertolt Brecht. His expansive perspective embraces artistic movements and individual artists - from the Renaissance to the present - while never neglecting the ...

The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger’s archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners’ strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today: a time when people are rediscovering the necessity, power and possibilities of collective action.Including essays, transcripts, interviews and images, it places itself in the heart of a Derbyshire mining village, with reflections on the everyday li...

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...

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...

"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...