Author: John Berger
Publisher: Gustavo Gili
ISBN: 9788425230325
Binding: paperback
Pages: 328
Format: 15 x 21 cm
Spanish Language
“I have always hated being called an art critic,” says John Berger, in this comprehensive collection of his essays on artists. It would certainly be untrue to reduce to the category of art critic one of the European intellectuals who has not only been able to dissect the visual work of so many artists, but has also contributed new approaches to the very nature of visual language and its role in contemporary culture. This is the first of two volumes that for the first time exhaustively collect all the texts that John Berger dedicated to the artists who taught him and inspired him through their lives and their works. Compiled by Tom Overton from the archives that Berger donated to the British Library during his lifetime, the texts in this first volume range from the prehistoric paintings in the Chauvet Cave to the advent of modernity with Paul Cezánne, while the second volume includes essays ranging from Claude Monet to Randa Mdah, a Palestinian artist born in 1983. They all reveal Berger's immeasurable observational and narrative capacity, which for decades has illuminated different generations of readers with new meanings and values. A rigorous and essential work to understand Berger's legacy.
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