Book strip #1

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  Landscapes

  by John Berger

  Introduction by Tom Overton

  Edited by Tom Overton

  Landscapes showcases the development and practice of John Berger’s unique way of seeing. Here he surveys the aesthetic landscapes that have informed, challenged and nourished his understanding of t...
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  Hold Everything Dear

  by John Berger

  From the ‘ War on Terror’ to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, ...
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  Permanent Red

  by John Berger

  In Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the work of historical artists as well as that of...
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  Art and Revolution

  by John Berger

  John Berger explores the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, who, after clashing with Khrushchev, was excluded from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists. Abandoned to obscurity, Neizvestn...
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  The Moment of Cubism

  by John Berger

  The Moment of Cubism is one of John Berger’s most important collections of art criticism. Whether considering Vermeer in his studio, Poussin’s poignant meditation on death, or the complexities of R...
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  Bento's Sketchbook

  by John Berger

  The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends ...
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  From A to X

  by John Berger

  From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms its highest values through struggle. John Berger presents a community which, besieged by economic and military oppression, finds transc...
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  Goya's Last Portrait/A Question of Geography

  by John Berger and Nella Bielski

  Goya’s Last Portrait presents the artist struggling to comprehend the relationship between his life and his work. Having painted humanity at its most violent and depraved amid the horrors of war, a...
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  A Seventh Man

  by John Berger

  First published in 1975, this finely wrought investigation remains as urgent as ever, presenting the life of those who have travelled to live and work in Europe. Art critic, novelist, and artist Jo...
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  Corker's Freedom

  by John Berger

  John Berger, storyteller, critic and political writer, brings us this tender and bittersweet novel of a man’s dreams of freedom and romance. In his sixty-third year, quite unexpectedly, William Cor...
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  Portraits

  by John Berger

  Edited by Tom Overton

  John Berger, one of the world’s most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artis...
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  Mural

  by Mahmoud Darwish

  Introduction by John Berger

  Translated by John Berger and Rema Hammami

  Mural is the testimony of one of the most important and powerful poets of our age.Mahmoud Darwish was the unofficial laureate of Palestine. One of the greatest poets of the last half-century, his w...