Philosophy




  • And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

    Book 1984
    Books, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Philosophy, Poetry

    And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, book of essays and poems by John Berger, first edition in 1984. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions Champ Vallon (1991), new traduction for Éditions Hourra (2024).
    This stunning work is a shoebox filled with delicate love letters containing poetry and thoughts on mortality, art, love and absence, capturing moments in time that hover above …
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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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  • Selected Essays

    Book 2001
    Books, Economy, Essays, Geoff Dyer, Painting, Philosophy, Politics

    Selected Essays, book of essays by John Berger, edited by Geoff Dyer, first edition in 2001.
    Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic – even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays, for the first time, takes a definitive look at his extraordinary career. Far from being footnotes to the main body of work Berger’s essays are absolutely cent…
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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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  • Velasquez Äsop

    Book 1991
    Art, Books, Essays, Painting, Philosophy, Spain

    Velasquez Äsop, artist catalogue of the Spanish painter Diego Velasquez (1599-1660) by John Berger, first edition in 1991.
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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.