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Barcelona Exhibition: Permanent Red
May 13 2023
La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona proposes a great exhibition from 13th of May to 22nd of October 2023.
Permanent Red exhibition © La Virreina Centre de la Imatge – Pep Herrero
Curated by Valentín Roma and Laura Valls, this exhibition presents John Berger’s commitments through his books, videos, drawings completed by Jean Mohr’s photographies and other archives. They wel…
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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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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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Bento’s Sketchbook
Book 2011
Books, Drawing, Essays, Philosophy
Bento’s Sketchbook, essay and drawings by John Berger about Spinoza, first edition in 2011.
A deeply moving exploration of the relationship between thinking and drawing. The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notes—but no dr…
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Confabulations
Book 2016
Books, Drawing, Essays
Confabulations, last book of essays and drawings by John Berger before his death in 2017, first edition in 2016.
«Language is a body, a living creature … and this creature’s home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate. »
John Berger writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and political discourse today. Also containing Berger’s own drawings, notes, mem…
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Italian books
Book 2004
Art, Books, Contemporary art, Drawing, Essays, Italy, Maria Nadotti
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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Berger on Drawing
Book 2005
Books, Drawing, Essays, Yves Berger
Berger on Drawing, book of essays and drawings by John Berger, edited by Jim Savage, first edition in 2005.
With 49 black and white illustrations including drawings by John and Yves Berger. Berger On Drawing is an exciting anthology of essays in which John Berger explores that most primary and most primal of all art activities: drawing.
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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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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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Man on a Beach
Book 1998
Books, Collaborations, Drawing, Selçuk Demirel, Turkey
Man on a Beach by John Berger (text) and Selçuk Demirel (illustrations), first edition in 1998.
A man sitting at his desk dreams of the beach… He looks beyond the shore, the sea, the horizon: hand in hand with the stars, he draws on the sky. From his apartment filled with books, he tries to reach the world of dreams… Selçuk Demirel invites the reader into his imaginary world, floating like a poem. And …
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Cataract
Book 2012
Books, Collaborations, Drawing, Painting, Selçuk Demirel, Turkey
Cataract by John Berger (text) and Selçuk Demirel (illustrations), first edition in 2012.
What happens when an art critic loses some of his sight to cataracts? What wonders are glimpsed once vision is restored? In this impressionistic essay written in the spirit of Montaigne, John Berger records the effects of cataract removal operations on each of his eyes. With words by John Berger and beautiful illustrat…
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Smoke
Book 2016
Books, Collaborations, Drawing, Selçuk Demirel, Turkey
Smoke by John Berger (text) and Selçuk Demirel (illustrations), first edition in 2016.
John Berger, long-time smoker, joins forces again with Turkish writer and illustrator Selçuk Demirel in an unexpected pictorial essay.
Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked.
This charming pictorial essay reflects on the cultural implications of smoking, and suggests, through a series of bri…
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What Time Is It?
Book 2018
Books, Collaborations, Drawing, Maria Nadotti, Selçuk Demirel, Turkey
What Time Is It? edited by Maria Nadotti with John Berger’s texts and Selçuk Demirel’s illustrations, first edition in 2018.
This is a playful meditation on the illusory nature of time. Our perception of it assumes a uniform and ceaseless passing of hours, but Berger suggests that it is turbulent. It expands and contracts according to the intensity of the lived moment. In this beautiful essay in picture…
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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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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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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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Centenary Visual
Sep 08 2025
John Berger would have been 100 years old in 2026. Several rendez-vous will take place to celebrate this anniversary, and so Carmen Balcells Agency through Teresa Pinto proposed to create a centenary visual.
Here it is. It uses a self-portrait and a quote that we specially love.
This visual will be associated to all these centenary events, as a “fil rouge” between all of them.
With this page, we sp…
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JOHN BERGER
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.