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Title

Selected essays / John Berger ; edited by Geoff Dyer.

Author

Berger, John

Publication

London : Bloomsbury, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Dyer, Geoff

Description

xiii, 588 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Booker-winning novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic, John Berger has excelled in a variety of literary fields. This collection of essays takes a definitive look at his career.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections. 2001

Alternative Title

Works. 2001

Subject

• Art criticism
• Authors, English > 20th century
• English literature > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 583-586).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From Permanent Red (1960) (US title Toward Reality). Preface to the 1979 Edition. Introduction. Drawing. Jackson Pollock. Henry Moore. Juan Gris. Jacques Lipchitz. Ossip Zadkine. Fernand Leger. Pablo Picasso. Henri Matisse. Oskar Kokoschka. The Clarity of the Renaissance. The Calculations of Piero. Poussin's Order. Watteau as the Painter of His Time. The Honesty of Goya. The Dilemma of the Romantics. Millet and Labour. The Politics of Courbet. Gauguin's Crime -- From The Moment of Cubism (1969). The Moment of Cubism. The Historical Function of the Museum. The Changing View of Man in the Portrait. Art and Property Now. Image of Imperialism. Nude in a Fur Coat: Robens. The Painter in His Studio: Vermeer. Et in Arcadia Ego: Poussin. The Maja Dressed and The Maja Undressed: Goya. Mathias Grunewald. L. S. Lowry. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Alberto Giacometti. Pierre Bonnard. Frans Hals. Auguste Rodin -- From The Look of Things (1972). Peter Peri. Zadkine. Le Corbusier. Victor Serge. Walter Benjamin. Drawings by Watteau. Fernand Leger. Thicker than Water (Corot). Painting a Landscape. Understanding a Photograph. The Political Uses of Photo-Montage. The Sight of a Man. Revolutionary Undoing. Past Seen from a Possible Future. The Nature of Mass Demonstrations -- The Booker Prize Speech. Speech on Accepting the Booker Prize for Fiction (1972) -- From About Looking (1980). Why Look at Animals? The Suit and the Photograph. Photographs of Agony. Paul Strand. Uses of Photography. The Primitive and the Professional. Millet and the Peasant. Seker Ahmet and the Forest. La Tour and Humanism. Francis Bacon and Walt Disney. An Article of Faith. Between Two Colmars. Courbet and the Jura. Turner and the Barber's Shop. Rouault and the Suburbs of Paris. Magritte and the Impossible. Romaine Lorquet. Field -- From The White Bird (1985) (US title The Sense of Sight). The White Bird. The Storyteller. The Eaters and the Eaten. On the Bosphorus. The Theatre of Indifference. Modigliani's Alphabet of Love. The Hals Mystery. In a Moscow Cemetery. Ernst Fischer: A Philosopher and Death. Francois, Georges and Amelie: A Requiem in Three Parts. Drawn to That Moment. The Eyes of Claude Monet. The Work of Art. Mayakovsky: His Language and His Death [with Anya Bostock]. The Hour of Poetry. Leopardi. The Production of the World -- Ulysses. The First and Last Recipe: Ulysses (1991) -- From Keeping a Rendezvous (1992). Note to the Reader. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye. That Which Is Held. A Load of Shit. Mother. A Story for Aesop. The Ideal Palace. Imagine Paris. A Kind of Sharing. Christ of the Peasants. A Professional Secret. Ape Theatre. The Opposite of Naked. A Household. Drawing on Paper. Erogenous Zone. The Soul and the Operator. The Third Week of August, 1991.

ISBN

0747554196

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library