France

Annemasse exhibition: «Des fruits…»

Jun 02 2023

HEAD-Geneva (art school) students’ exhibition around John Berger at Villa du Parc, Annemasse (beside Geneva, Haute-Savoie, France)After their class «Expose John Berger» leaded by Aurélie Pétrel and Garance Chabert, 20 students proposed the collective exhibition «Des fruits tels que s’en souviennent les morts». John’s work inspired a great diversity of creations, some were very subtile for exemple the on…
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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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TRILOGY Into Their Labours

Book 1992

Animals, Books, Countryside, France, Migrants, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Short Stories, Workers

Into Their Labours, trilogy by John Berger, first edition in 1992 : Pig Earth (1979), Once in Europa (1986) and Lilac and Flag (1990). A trilogy of novels that traces the journey of the European peasant from the mountains to the metropolis.
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Pig Earth

Book 1979

Animals, Books, France, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Short Stories, Workers

Pig Earth, book of novels by John Berger, first edition in 1979. First volume of his trilogy Into Their Labours (1992).
Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of sceptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women. This book is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing.
« The cow’s legs fold and her body collapses instan…
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Once in Europa

Book 1986

Animals, Books, France, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Short Stories, Workers

Once in Europa, book of novels by John Berger, first edition in 1982. Second volume of his trilogy Into Their Labours (1992).
A collection of interwoven stories, this is a portrait of two worlds – a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it – at their moment of collision. The instrument of entrapment is love. Lives are lost and hearts bro…
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My Beautiful

Book 2004

Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Essays, France, Marc Trivier, Photography, Sculpture, Workers, Yves Berger

My Beautiful by John Berger (text) and Marc Trivier (photographs), first publication in English and French in 2004.
The question of beauty is addressed here in the intertwining of photographic and writing approaches. Jean Marquis made portraits of Giacometti in his studio, Marc Trivier photographed Giacometti’s sculptures. John Berger, in the continuation of his reflection and in particular on his distance from…
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Return to my Native Land

Book 1969

Books, Colonialism, France, Migrants, Poetry, Politics, Translations by JB

Return to my Native Land, poem by Aimé Césaire, translated in english by Anna Bostock and John Berger, first edition in 1969. New edition introduced by Jason Allen-Paisant who revisited their translation.
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John by Jean

Book 2016

About John Berger, Books, Collaborations, Countryside, Family, France, Jean Mohr, Peasants, Photography, Quincy, Tributes

John by Jean, Fifty Years of Friendship, edited by Jim Savage with Simone and Jean Mohr photographs, first publication in 2016.
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Into Their Labours meeting

Apr 25 2024

In 1973, John Berger set up in Quincy in Giffre Valley to immerse himself into peasant world to write his trilogy Into Their Labours. The three books have been progressively published in french but the trilogy has been published for the first time in french only in 2024 by Éditions Héros Limite. 
The 25th of April 2024, the Geneva publisher Alain Berset came to Giffre valley, at écomusée du Clos Parchet abo…
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