JOHN BERGER (1926-2017) was an English essayist and cultural thinker as well as a prolific novelist, poet, translator, and screenwriter.
G. (1972), a picaresque romance set in Europe in 1898 and probably the best known of his novels, was praised for its clever details as well as for its portrayal of intricate sexual and interpersonal relationships, and won the Man Booker Prize. His major fictional work of the 1980s, the trilogy INTO THEIR LABOURS (consisting of the novels PIG EARTH, ONCE IN EUROPA, and LILAC AND FLAG), treats the European peasant experience from its farming roots to contemporary economic and political displacement and urban poverty.
PERMANENT RED (1960) was the first of many essay collections on art criticism, politics and memory. It underlined his Marxist stance toward art and the difficulties he faced writing during the Cold War. His studies of individual artists include THE SUCCESS AND FAILURE OF PICASSO (1965), a controversial survey of that modernist's career, and ART AND REVOLUTION (1969), which examines the work of Ernst Neizvestny and "the role of the artist in the USSR".
WAYS OF SEEING (1972), written to accompany a BBC series and echoing the work of Walter Benjamin, aimed at demystifying art history and revealed the sometimes-underlying ways in which meaning and ideology are conveyed through visual media. The book continues to be a key text in art history education into the 21st century.
The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:
== FICTION ==
* Corker's Freedom (Pantheon, 1993) -- PDF
* From A to X (Verso, 2008) -- PDF
* G. (Vintage, 1991)
* King: A Street Story (Vintage, 2000)
* Lilac and Flag [Into Their Labours 3] (Vintage, 1990)
* Once in Europa [Into Their Labours 2] (Bloomsbury, 1993)
* Pig Earth [Into Their Labours 1] (Vintage, 1992)
* To the Wedding (Vintage, 1996)
== NON-FICTION ==
* About Looking (Vintage, 1991)
* And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos (Bloomsbury, 2014)
* Another Way of Telling [with Jean Mohr] (Vintage, 1995)
* Art and Revolution (Vintage, 1997)
* Bento's Sketchbook (Pantheon, 2011)
* Fortunate Man, A [with Jean Mohr] (Canongate, 2014)
* Here is Where We Meet (Vintage, 2006)
* Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (Pantheon, 2007)
* Keeping a Rendezvous (Vintage, 1992)
* Landscapes: John Berger on Art (Verso, 2016). Tom Overton, ed.
* Meanwhile (Drawbridge, 2008) -- PDF
* Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing (Methuen, 1960) -- PDF
* Photocopies (Bloomsbury, 2014)
* Portraits: John Berger on Artists (Verso, 2015). Tom Overton, ed.
* Selected Essays (Vintage, 2003). Geoff Dyer, ed.
* Sense of Sight, The (Vintage, 1993). Lloyd Spencer, ed.
* Shape of a Pocket, The (Vintage, 2002)
* Success and Failure of Picasso (Vintage, 1993)
* Titian: Nymph and Shepherd [with Katya Berger] (Bloomsbury, 2014)
* Understanding a Photograph (Penguin, 2013). Geoff Dyer, ed.
* Ways of Seeing (Penguin, 2008)
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