Magazine CRITICAL QUARTERLY special John Berger, Volume 65, 141 pages, April 2023
Leo Robson has commissioned about a dozen essays on different aspects of John Berger’s work. Contributors were very inventive and it ended up with works on Berger and food, Berger and the representation of women, Berger and time… from among others Marina Warner, Ben Lerner, Lamorna Ash, Jonathan Nunn, and Henry Mance.
Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.
He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.
Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.