New Releases by JOHN BERGER

Con esta provocativa y conmovedora colección de ensayos, un crítico de nuestro tiempo responde a las profundas cuestiones que plantea el mundo visual. Cuando John Berger escribe sobre cubismo, no sólo escribe de Braque, Léger, Picasso y Gris, sino de ese milagroso momento al inicio del siglo xx cuando el mundo convergía alrededor de un prodigioso sentimiento de esperanza. Cuando analiza el trabajo de Modigliani, ve el amor infinito que se revela en las alargadas líneas de la figura pintada. Recreándose desde el Renacimiento hasta la conflagración de Hiroshima; desde el Bósforo hasta Manhattan; desde los tallistas de un pueblo en Francia hasta Goya, Durero y Van Gogh; y desde experiencias personales de amor y pérdida hasta el más importante levantamiento político de nuestros días, este libro nos incita a mirar con la misma tolerancia, coraje y compromiso moral con que mira el autor.

Artwork by John Christie. Text by John Berger.

In this book you will be led to a place you haven''t been, from where few stories come. You will be led by King, a dog--or is he a dog?--to a wasteland beside the highway called Saint Valery. Here, at the end of the twentieth century, among smashed trucks, old boilers, and broken washing machines, live Liberto, Malak, Jack, Corinna, Danny, Anna, Joachim, Saul, Alfonso, and Vico and Vica. Listen to King''s voice as he tells a different kind of story: twenty-four hours pass and lives are lived. It is good to have survived another winter, for now it is spring, when the nights, though cold, are no longer harsh enough to kill. The wet season is over, and with it the hopelessness of damp. Today the sun will shine: of what else will the day be made? King is at once a furious homage to the homeless and a lyrical meditation on language and experience. The bitter yet celebratory prose speaks to us all.

Deuxième volet de la trilogie Dans leur travail, ce livre a pour toile de fond un village de la montagne française où les habitudes de vie sont marquées, de manière irréversible, par la mécanisation et l''exode rural. Mais les personnages de John Berger, pas plus que ceux de Tchekhov, ne peuvent être réduits à leur cadre de vie : Félix, accordéoniste célibataire, Boris, qui a fait le don inutile de sa vie à une femme, Albertine qui, u moment de mourir, " n''entendait pas qu''on lui vole son tour ". Tous se frayent un chemin entre la " douleur des autres " et la solitude qu''ils portent, entre les histoires racontées au cours des veillées et celles qu''ils vivent.

Documents the works of this Medieval artist.

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial experience of viewing lilacs at dusk, and explores the meaning of home to early man and to the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in our cities today. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos is a seamless fusion of the political and personal.

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