Picasso




  • The Success and Failure of Picasso

    Book 1965
    Art, Books, Early Works, Essays, France, Painting, Picasso, 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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  • Portraits

    Book 2015
    Art, Books, Contemporary art, Drawing, Painting, Philosophy, Picasso, 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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  • The Moment of Cubism

    Book 1969
    Art, Books, Essays, Painting, Picasso

    The Moment of Cubism and Other Essays, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1969.
    Whether looking at Vermeer in his studio, or Poussin’s poignant meditation death, the contradictions of Rodin’s sculpture, Berger was always able to see the threads that bound the individual life, their passion for creativity and the social and political contexts they were working within. The Moment of Cubism is considere…
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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.