Russia




  • Art and Revolution

    Book 1969
    Art, Books, Drawing, Essays, Painting, Russia, Sculpture

    Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny And the Role of the Artist in the U.S.S.R, essay by John Berger, first edition in 1969.
    What is the meaning of Revolutionary art? And who is the revolutionary artist?
    In Art and Revolution, John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscuri…
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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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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.