John Berger / / Andy Merrifield

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822454203321
• Autore: Merrifield Andy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Reaktion Books, 2012
• ISBN: 1-86189-942-4; 1-299-19112-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Collana: Critical lives
• Disciplina: 828.91409
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: John Berger Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Introduction: The Blackbird, the Badger and the King; 1. Seeing Eye; 2. G. and Un-G.; 3. Van Gogh's Boots; 4. Showing Voice; 5. Animal Humanism; 6. Amongst Other Things a Marxist; 7. About Time and Space; 8. Confronting Walls; 9. Spinoza's Motorbike; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements
• Sommario/riassunto: With a career in literature and art spanning more than sixty years, John Berger is characterized by an independent and anti-institutional approach to creativity. Working in a range of media including novels, painting, essays and scriptwriting, Berger's voice has resounded through mainstream and alternative culture alike. He is perhaps best known for his seminal book of art criticism Ways of Seeing, published in 1972. Tied directly into a four-part BBC television series, the book presented a radical new interpretation of Western cultural aesthetics. In the same year, Berger's experim