Tom Overton

The Underground Sea – Miners and the Miners’ strike

Oct 06 2023

This new John Berger book edited by Tom Overton and Matthew Harle brings together for the first time John Berger’s work on mineworkers and the miners’ strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today. Publication of The Underground Sea marks the 40th anniversary of the 1984-85 Strike, at a time when people are rediscovering the necessity, power and possibilities of collective action. Including transcripts…
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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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Landscapes

Book 2015

Art, Books, Contemporary art, Essays, Tom Overton

Landscapes, book of essays by John Berger, edited by Tom Overton, first edition in 2016. This volume completes a first volume Portraits (2015).
What does art tell us about ourselves? John Berger on the politics and consolations of creativity. In this collection of diverse works — essays, short stories, poems, translations — which spans a lifetime’s engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his…
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Hackney Museum: Night of celebration

Nov 05 2024

John Berger was born on 5th of November 1926 in Stoke Newington, Hackney district of London. On Tuesday 5th of November 2024, Hackney Museum organised a night of celebration with Ken Worpole, Farrukh Dhondy and Tom Overton.
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