Politics
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Permanent Red
Book 1960
Art, Books, Early Works, Essays, Painting, Politics
Permanent Red, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1960.
Why should an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist’s intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political.
In Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the work of histor…
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The Look of Things
Book 1972
Art, Books, Essays, Painting, Politics
The Look of Things: Selected Essays and Articles, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1972.
This anthology of some of John Berger’s most incisive and brilliant essays and articles, written throughout the 1960s, is one of his most celebrated books. The pieces span from the life of artists like Camille Corot and Fernand Léger; character sketches of the likes of Le Corbusier, Walter Benjamin, Jack Yea…
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Hold Everything Dear
Book 2007
Books, Economy, Essays, Politics, Workers
Hold Everything Dear, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 2007.
A powerful meditation on political resistance and the global search for justice. From the ‘War on Terror’ to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far ex…
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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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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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A Question of Geography
Book 1987
Books, Collaborations, Economy, Nella Bielski, Politics, Russia, Theater
A Question of Geography, play by Nella Bielski and John Berger, first edition in 1987.
The play centres on Daria Petrovna Petrova, who, having been condemned to ten years in the Gulag, now lives in Magadan in permanent exile. Daria has formed a relationship with a doctor who is also a prisoner, but who is allowed out of the prison camp during the day on account of his profession.
When the play opens, Daria is …
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Poems on the Theatre
Book 1961
Books, Early Works, Poetry, Politics, Theater, Translations by JB
Poems on the Theatre, poetry by Bertolt Brecht, translated in english by Anna Bostock and John Berger, first edition in 1961.
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Return to my Native Land
Book 1969
Books, Colonialism, France, Migrants, Poetry, Politics, Translations by JB
Return to my Native Land, poem by Aimé Césaire, translated in english by Anna Bostock and John Berger, first edition in 1969. New edition introduced by Jason Allen-Paisant who revisited their translation.
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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.