Letters
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From A to X
Book 2008
Books, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Palestine, Politics
From A to X, novel by John Berger, first edition in 2008. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions L’Olivier (2009).
Novel about love and resistance, From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily…
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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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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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Flying Skirts
Book 2010
Books, Collaborations, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Poetry, Quincy, Tributes, Yves Berger
Flying Skirts book by Yves and John Berger as an elegy to Beverly Bancroft (1942-2014), first edition in 2015. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions L’Olivier (2015).
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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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Iona Heath Ways of Learning
Sep 12 2024
The English Doctor Iona Heath, wrote Ways of Learning – John Berger for the Oxford University Press collection “My Reading” which offers personal models of what it is like to care about particular authors and works and to show their effect upon a reader’s own thinking and development. It includes Iona and John’s correspondance over nearly 20 years.
More information on Oxford University Press
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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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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.