John Berger Knihy

V tematicky rozmanitých esejích se autor soustřeďuje na základní předpoklady, které ovlivňují naše umělecké vnímání. Úvodní stať (Proč se dívat na zvířata) se svým námětem poněkud vymyká z celého souboru - věnuje se vývoji vztahu člověka a zvířete a kriticky tematizuje fenomén kulturní marginalizace zvířat v moderní době. Následují oddíly věnované fotografii a výtvarnému umění - Berger se ve svých výtvarných kritikách a analýzách věnuje jak význačným představitelům starého umění (La Tour, Hals), tak výtvarným umělcům 19. a 20. století (Courbet, Turner, Bacon, Rouault, Magritte, Giacometti a další). Texty, které charakterizuje historicko-sociologický přístup a zároveň autorova politická angažovanost, pocházejí většinou ze 60. a 70. let 20. století a vyšly původně časopisecky.

Contains seven essays. Three of them use only pictures. Examines the relationship between what we see and what we know.

"Traces Picasso's life and work from his childhood to his last drawings, and suggests that Picasso was a 'vertical invader' from Europe's feudal past, a 'primitive' man who burst upon a complex civilization and conquered it. Also analyzes the price Picasso paid for that conquest: in exile, isolation, and loneliness. Shows how the phenomenon of Picasso's success was connected less with his art than with the nostalgic nineteenth-century idea of genius that he evoked in others" --back cover

Honore Daumier (1808-1879) is perhaps best known for his political and social caricatures, precise and witty observations of life in nineteenth-century France. This study offers an assessment of his entire oeuvre, bringing together his paintings, sculptures, watercolours, drawings and lithographs, all of which were greatly admired in his lifetime.

1997 erhält John Berger von John Christie ein rot bemaltes Papier. Berger antwortet, er gibt der Farbe rot eine eigene 'Lebensgeschichte': das unberührte Rot der Kindheit, das Schwarz, in das es sich verwandelt im Älterwerden, das Weiß, das es war, als es jung war, bis er zu seinem Lieblingsrot, dem Caravaggio-Rot kommt. Später schreiben sich Berger und Christie über das Matisse-Blau, das Yves Klein-Blau, sie kommen von Klein zu Le Corbusier, von Perlmutt zu Courbet, von Gelb zu Gold, von Kandinsky zu Paul Klee. Die Publikation dieser faszinierenden Korrespondenz ist eine Schatzkammer für alle diejenigen, die sich für Farben, Gestaltung, Malerei, Kunstgeschichte und Design interessieren. Die phantasievoll und sehr künstlerisch gestalteten Briefe werden alle im Faksimile und in Übersetzung wiedergegeben.

Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant worker—the material circumstances and the inner experience—and, in doing so, reveal how the migrant is not so much on the margins of modern life, but absolutely central to it. First published in 1975, this finely wrought exploration remains as urgent as ever, presenting a mode of living that pervades the countries of the West and yet is excluded from much of its culture.

A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. This work features essays about - Rembrandt, Palaeolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient Egyptians, an expert in the loneliness of certain hotel bedrooms, and a man in a radio station.

Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays takes a look at his career. Berger's wide-ranging essays emphasise the continuities that have underpinned more than 40 years of tireless intellectual inquiry and political engagement. schovat popis

One of the most eloquent accounts of photography written in collaboration with the Swiss photographer Jean Mohr and illustrated by both Jean Mohr's work and notable examples of photography throughout the Twentieth Century. This publication ties in with the BBC's televising of a four part series.