Portraits

John Berger has an artist’s heart John Berger has an artist’s heart. He writes like a storyteller - exploring a selected group of artists he has pulled from previous articles? (Maybe his personal favorites) He breaks down the artist and the art into manageable pieces and profiles the artist from his intellectual brain in a creative way. This is not an Art History book but Berger's knowledgeable understanding of each artist mixed with his travels It. Berger's Combination of Aesthetic Value and Social Analysis Inter Axion Inc. Each essay combines an insightful appreciation of a work of art with Berger's insights into life in our day.For example, in his discussion of the Fayum Portrait Painters of the 1st to 3rd centuries , Berger contrasts the "confident, expansive culture" of the time with our own in which "The future has been, for the moment, downsized, and the past is being made redundant.". "Hardback not as pictured." according to indeed_and_truth. Hardback did not arrive as expected. It is not like the pictures on amazon. I would have bought the paperback if I hadn't been somewhat persuaded by the lovely looking Verso cover with a burlap looking texture. Instead, the book arrived in a regularly hardback. It is decent quality but now what I expected. Starts because of the book's content, but I am disappointed it was not the Verso cover I expected.

These titles, when carefully assigned, could be limiting, but in Berger’s expert hands, they are just the beginning.”—Haley Mlotek, National Post “John Berger is always illuminating and his latest book doesn’t disappoint.”—Scotsman “In this extraordinary new book, John Berger embarks on a process of re-discovery and re-figuring of history through the visual narratives given to us by portraiture. “Editors’ Choice” —New York Times“John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel, how to stare at things till we see what we thought wasn’t there. Portraits is so lively a book it can feel uncanny.” —n+1 “Regardless of the era he studies or the decade in which he write

He is working on Berger’s biography and a book on migration and archives. Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger (1926–2017) was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing; the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours; Here Is Where We Meet; the Booker Prize–winning novel G; Hold Everything Dear; the Man Booker–

A major new book from one of the world’s leading writers and art criticsJohn Berger, one of the world’s most celebrated art writers, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both canonized and obscure, from Rembrandt to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. The result is an illuminating walk through many centuries of visual culture, from one of the contemporary world’s most incisive critical voices.. In Portraits, Berger grounds the artists in their historical milieu in revolutionary ways, whether enlarging