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.

Berger on Drawing is a new anthology of essays in which John Berger explores that most primary and most primal of all art drawing. The 16 texts are gathered from nearly half a century of the author’s engagement with the activity of drawing, both as a writer and as a practitioner. They are published together in one volume for the first time, accompanied by newly commissioned pieces : including a major collaborative essay by John Berger and his son, the painter Yves Berger; and an exchange of letters on drawing between John Berger and the American art historian James Elkins (author of, amongst other What Painting Is , The Object Stares Back, Stories of Art and Pictures and Tears ). As we have come to expect from Berger, the book offers many fascinating and unexpected insights into this intriguing subject, ranging from his account of a journey deep into the Chauvet Caves to see some of the earliest drawings ever made, right up to present day encounters with the contemporary drawn image.

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and erotic. In To the Wedding, a blind Greek peddler tells the story of the wedding between a fellow peddler and his bride in a remarkable series of vivid and telling vignettes. As the book cinematically moves from one character''s perspective to another, events and characters move toward the convergence of the wedding--and a haunting dance of love and death.

Titian: Nymph and Shepherd is presented as a series of stimulating letters exchanged between the internationally renowned author and art critic John Berger and his daughter, Katya. This correspondence is the extraordinary vehicle for a series of insights into the everyday life and the art of the great Venetian master, following an uncanny incident at the great exhibition of his work staged in Venice in 1990.

Lucie Cabrol is a wild, tiny woman born into a peasant family in France in 1900. Abandoned by her lover, Jean, and banished by her family, she becomes an outcast. She survives her second life by smuggling goods across the border. But it is not until her third life, her afterlife, that she discovers the survival of something more than bare human existence - the survival of hope and love. The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, adapted from John Berger''s short story, was premiered at the Manchester Dancehouse in January 1994. It subsequently toured throughout Britain before a sell-out run at the Riverside Studios, London. In 1995 it was revived for a West End season at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London and a British and international tour.

Documents the works of this Medieval artist.

Roman om, hvordan den gamle livsmåde hos franske bønder forsvinder, når de bosætter sig i storbyen

"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. "But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled." John Berger''s Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has. "Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" -Peter Fuller, Arts Review "The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" -Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling