Italy
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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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The Red Tenda of Bologna
Book 2007
Books, Family, Italy, Philosophy
The Red Tenda of Bologna, book by John Berger as a dream-like meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna in Italy, first edition in 2007.
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Portraits Italian lectures
Nov 05 2021
After Italian edition of Portraits (Ritratti, Il Saggiatore) and for John Berger’s 95th birthday, Maria Nadotti proposed an ambitious project : « Per John B. Ritratti d’artista ad alta voce » with Okta Film production. She gathered 30 actors to read aloud 30 portraits of artists written by John Berger. All these readings can be listened to online and each actor will also explain his/her artistic choice and his…
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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.