Art

Permanent Red

Book 1960

Art, Books, Early Works, Essays, Painting, Politics

Permanent Red, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1960.
Why should an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist’s intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political.
In Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the work of histor…
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The Success and Failure of Picasso

Book 1965

Art, Books, Early Works, Essays, France, Painting, Spain

The Success and Failure of Picasso, essay by John Berger, first edition in 1965.
At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. At the height of his fame, he was the artist as royalty: incalculably wealthy, universally idolized−and wholly isolated.
In this stunning critical asses…
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Art and Revolution

Book 1969

Art, Books, Drawing, Essays, Painting, Russia, Sculpture

Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny And the Role of the Artist in the U.S.S.R, essay by John Berger, first edition in 1969.
What is the meaning of Revolutionary art? And who is the revolutionary artist?
In Art and Revolution, John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscuri…
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The Look of Things

Book 1972

Art, Books, Essays, Painting, Politics

The Look of Things: Selected Essays and Articles, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1972.
This anthology of some of John Berger’s most incisive and brilliant essays and articles, written throughout the 1960s, is one of his most celebrated books. The pieces span from the life of artists like Camille Corot and Fernand Léger; character sketches of the likes of Le Corbusier, Walter Benjamin, Jack Yea…
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Ways of Seeing

Book 1972

Art, Books, Essays, Feminism, Painting, UK

Ways of Seeing, essay by John Berger, first edition in 1972, based on the BBC television series with John Berger, made by John Berger, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, Michael Dibb and Richard Hollis.
This book has been translated in 38 languages.
“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled” — so opens John Berger’s revolutionary million-copy bestseller on how to look at artJohn B…
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About Looking

Book 1980

Art, Books, Essays, Painting

About Looking, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1980.
As a novelist, essayist, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind u…
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The Sense of Sight

Book 1985

Art, Books, Essays, Painting

The Sense of Sight, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1985.
With this provocative and infinitely moving collection of essays, John Berger responds to the profound questions posed by the visual world. For when he writes about Cubism, he writes not only of Braque, Léger, Picasso, and Gris, but of that incredible moment early in this century when the world converged around a marvelous sense of promise…
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Pages of the Wound

Book 1994

Art, Books, Drawing, John Christie, Photography, Poetry

Pages of the Wound, book of poems, drawings and photographs 1956-96 by John Berger, first limited edition in 1994, paperback edition in 1996.
Pages of the Wound is the result of a collaboration between John Christie, who printed the original book at Circle Press, and John Berger. This is a collection of his poems, drawings and photographs. It includes 46 poems written between 1956 and 1994. “At Remaurian”, a …
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Photocopies

Book 1996

Art, Books, Drawing, Essays, Exhibitions, Short Stories

Photocopies, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1996.
This is a collection of portraits of a shepherd, a farmer, a painter and blind man, a sylph of Byzantine arrogance and a vagabond cyclist with primroses growing in her basket. The backgrounds range from Prague, Paris, Athens, Lahore and countrysides and mountainscapes.
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Italian books

Book 2004

Art, Books, Contemporary art, Drawing, Essays, Italy

Maria Nadotti edited John Berger’s books which only exist in italian : Modi di Vedere (2004) • Abbi cara ogni cosa (2007 similar version to Hold Everything Dear) • La Speranza, nel frattempo (conversation with Arundhati Roy, 2010) • Contro i nuovi tirani (2012) • Sulla Motocicletta (2018).
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Portraits

Book 2015

Art, Books, Contemporary art, Drawing, Painting, Philosophy, Tom Overton

Portraits, book of essays by John Berger, edited by Tom Overton, first edition in 2015. This first volume has been completed by a second volume Landscapes (2016).
John Berger 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, Ja…
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Landscapes

Book 2015

Art, Books, Contemporary art, Essays, Tom Overton

Landscapes, book of essays by John Berger, edited by Tom Overton, first edition in 2016. This volume completes a first volume Portraits (2015).
What does art tell us about ourselves? John Berger on the politics and consolations of creativity. In this collection of diverse works — essays, short stories, poems, translations — which spans a lifetime’s engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his…
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Swimming Pool

Book 2020

Art, Books, Collaborations, Drawing, John Christie, Painting

Swimming Pool, essay by John Berger edited by John Christie with Leon Kossoff’s works, first edition in 2020.
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Goya’s last portrait

Book 1989

Art, Books, Collaborations, Nella Bielski, Spain, Theater

Goya’s last portrait, play by Nella Bielski and John Berger, first edition in 1989.
At a time of chaos and upheaval, Francisco Goya made his living painting portraits of the royal family and aristocracy of Spain which were often devastating in their truth. He also painted a number of self-portraits. But he left another self-portrait – and a portrait of his times – in the form of drawings and etchings which …
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Titian : Nymph and Shepherd

Book 1996

Art, Books, Collaborations, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting

Titian : Nymph and Shepherd, book of letters by Katya and John Berger, first edition in 1996.
This book is first a dialogue between a daughter and a father about life, physical sensation, mortality. Both seem to listen to the other with great attention. Secondly, it is the extraordinary vehicle for a series of insights into the everyday life and the art of the great Venetian master, following an uncanny incident …
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Mantegna : Lying Down to Sleep

Book 2010

Art, Books, Collaborations, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting

Mantegna : Lying Down to Sleep, book of letters by Katya and John Berger, first edition in 2010.
The clouds in the Oculus of the Bridal Chamber, painted by Andrea Mantegna at St George’s Castle in Mantua, are the starting point for an intimate dialogue between father and daughter John and Katya Berger, held as they observe the frescoes in the famous room. The conversation leads to a personal exploration of…
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I Send You This Cadmium Red

Book 2000

Art, Books, Collaborations, Drawing, John Christie, Letters, Painting, UK

I Send You This Cadmium Red, a correspondence between John Berger and John Christie, first edition in 2000.
« Could it be that red is the one colour that is continually asking for a body? »
A book of correspondence between two highly talented friends-writer/critic/artist John Berger and filmmaker/artist John Christie – I Send You This Cadmium Red began in concept in February 1997, when Christie mused to �…
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Four Horizons

Book 2015

Art, Books, Collaborations, John Christie, Letters

Four horizons, A visit to the Ronchamp chapel of Le Corbusier, John Berger, John Christie, sister Telchilde Hinckley, sister Lucia Kuppens, first edition in Spanish in 2015.
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Lapwing & Fox

Book 2016

Art, Books, Collaborations, Drawing, John Christie, Letters, Painting, UK

Lapwing & Fox, Conversations between John Berger and John Christie, first edition in 2016.
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Books with Marisa Camino

Book 2005

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Letters, Painting, Spain

John Berger contributed to three Marisa Camino’s books :
Entries (2005)
Como crece una pluma (2005)
Cartas a Marisa Camino (2018)
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Books with Liane Birnberg

Book 2006

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Painting, Poetry

John Berger contributed to three Liane Birnberg’s books :
Word from a foreign language (2006)
Because wings are made to fly (2011)
Garden to my cheek (2016)
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Le Blaireau et le Roi

Book 2010

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger

Le Blaireau et le Roi , book by Yves and John Berger, edited by Emmanuel Favre, first edition in 2010, in link with the exhibition Dans leur travail at Chartreuse de Mélan (2006 Taninges, France).
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Over To You

Book 2019

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger

Over To You correspondence book of texts and images by Yves and John Berger, first edition in french in 2019, in english in 2024. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for L’Atelier contemporain (2019).
Compelling and intimate, this collection of never-before-seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist, John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art,…
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Seeing Through Drawing

Book 2017

About John Berger, Art, Books, Collaborations, Drawing, John Christie, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting, Tributes, UK, Yves Berger

Seeing Through Drawing, art catalogue, texts and correspondences with John Berger and others, edited by John Christie, first edition in 2017.
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Par La Fenêtre

Book 2009

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger

Par La Fenêtre, exhibition catalog by Yves and John Berger, edited by Emmanuel Favre in link with their exhibition at Galerie Josephski-Neukum (2009, Issing, Germany).
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Disparate De Fuendetodos

Book 2013

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Spain, Yves Berger

Disparate De Fuendetodos, exhibition catalog by Yves and John Berger, in link with their exhibition at Sala Zuloaga (2013, Fuendetodos, Spain).
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Desde el taller

Book 2015

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger

Desde el taller , dialog between Yves and John Berger with Emmanuel Favre, drawings by Yves and John Berger, edited in 2015.
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Velasquez Äsop

Book 1991

Art, Books, Essays, Painting, Philosophy, Spain

Velasquez Äsop, artist catalogue of the Spanish painter Diego Velasquez (1599-1660) by John Berger, first edition in 1991.
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Ways of Travelling Qattan Foundation book

Oct 10 2024

Despite the genocide and the war, Palestinian cultural world is still in resistance keeping to work, think, create, publish… Based in Gaza, London and Ramallah, the Qattan Foundation published Ways of Travelling about their artist residency program.
We can’t find yet any webpage about this publication, but here you’ll have some informations about :Announcement of the recipients of the Ways of Travelling …
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Here is Where We Meet podcast

May 12 2024

Michael Morris and James Lingwood previously co-directors of Artangel, launched with TANK Magazine a new podcast HERE IS WHERE WE MEET, sequence of conversation including Jeremy Deller, Laurie Anderson, Simon McBurney, Yto Barrada…
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Lecture: Over To You

Nov 15 2024

Yves Berger and Ariane Gülich joined Point Reyes Books, Californian bookshop, via Zoom on 15th of November 2024 for a reading and conversation about Over to You: Letters Between a Father and Son (2024, Pantheon), a book of correspondence between Yves Berger and his father John Berger.
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2025, Ariane and Yves portraits by each other © John Berger Estate
© Point Reyes Books
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The Shape Of A Pocket event 2025

Apr 28 2025

To pass the Berger Baton, Jan Woolf proposes this second The Shape Of A Pocket event to share John Berger’s world and his different commitments.
«The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order.»
John Berger
Sunday May 11th – 4pm – 6:30pm  Upstairs …
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