Italy




  • 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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  • Guttuso

    Book 1957
    Books, Early Works, Essays, Italy, Painting

    Guttuso, first book written by John Berger in 1957 about the italian painter Renato Guttuso. New publication in 2023 for the first time in italian, thanks to Maria Nadotti, Michael Berger, Tom Overton and Antonio Sellerio.
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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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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.