Portraits
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (530 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1784781762 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"John Berger has an artist’s heart" according to cpr. John Berger has an artist’s heart. He writes like a storyteller - exploring a selected group of artists he has pulled from previous articles? (Maybe his personal favorites) He breaks down the artist and the art into manageable pieces and profiles the artist from his intellectual . "Berger's Combination of Aesthetic Value and Social Analysis" according to Inter Axion Inc.. Each essay combines an insightful appreciation of a work of art with Berger's insights into life in our day.For example, in his discussion of the Fayum Portrait Painters of the 1st to Berger's Combination of Aesthetic Value and Social Analysis Each essay combines an insightful appreciation of a work of art with Berger's insights into life in our day.For example, in his discussion of the Fayum Portrait Painters of the 1st to 3rd centuries , Berger contrasts the "confident, expansive culture" of the time with our own in which . rd centuries , Berger contrasts the "confident, expansive culture" of the time with our own in which . Hardback not as pictured. indeed_and_truth Hardback did not arrive as expected. It is not like the pictures on amazon. I would have bought the paperback if I hadn't been somewhat persuaded by the lovely looking Verso cover with a burlap looking texture. Instead, the book arrived in a regularly hardback. It is decent quality but
A major new book from one of the world’s leading writers and art criticsJohn Berger, 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. In Portraits, Berger grounds the artists in their historical milieu in revolutionary ways, whether enlarging on the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves or Cy Twombly’s linguistic and pictorial play. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential conn
His many books include Ways of Seeing; the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours; Here Is Where We Meet; the Booker Prize–winning novel G; Hold Everything Dear; the Man Booker–longlisted From A to X; and A Seventh Man.Tom Overton catalogued John B
“Editors’ Choice” —New York Times“John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel, how to stare at things till we see what we thought wasn’t there. He is a master.”—Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things “A volume whose breadth and depth bring it close to a definitive self-portrait of one of Britain’s most original thinkers.” —Financial Times “Shows the 88-year-old British art critic at his bristling best.”—Wall Street Journal“Unruly attentiveness animates … a lifetime’s enga