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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780300267617 | ISBN 10: 0300267614
How to Enjoy Art: A Guide for Everyone provides the tools to understand and enjoy works of art. Debunking the pervasive idea that specialist knowledge is required to understand and appreciate art, instead How to Enjoy Art focuses on experie ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780714548609 | ISBN 10: 071454860x
This volume contains Tristan Tzara’s famous manifestos, which first appeared between 1916 and 1921 and became essential texts of the modern movement and models for Breton’s Surrealist manifestos. Art for Tzara was both deadly serious and a game, ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784785857 | ISBN 10: 1784785857
"John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel how to stare at things until we see what we thought wasn’t there. But above all, he teaches us how to love in the face of adversity. He is a master."(Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241201244 | ISBN 10: 0241201241
In this classic of art criticism, one of our foremost cultural historians grapples with the life and work of one of the twentieth century's most mercurial and prodigious artists. In The Success and Failure of Picasso, John Berger places the art ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141035796 | ISBN 10: 014103579x
Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics. 'But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783608799 | ISBN 10: 178360879x
Edited by Yasmin Gunaratnam with Amarjit Chandan Contributors include Ali Smith, Julie Christie, Sally Potter, Ram Rahman, Nick Thorpe, Hsiao-Hung Pai and others. "John Berger has made the world a better place to live in. These essays tell us h ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141984957 | ISBN 10: 0141984953
'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itsel ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857862310 | ISBN 10: 0857862316
Is science the only path to knowledge? In this sparkling and provocative book Jonah Lehrer, author of The Decisive Moment, explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of celebrated writers ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844675937 | ISBN 10: 1844675939
One of the twentieth century’s most influential books on art, with a new introduction by the author of Ways of Seeing. “Art is necessary in order that man should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of th ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848850644 | ISBN 10: 1848850646
Over recent years a greater diversity of spaces has opened up worldwide for the making and display of art beyond the gallery. A new ‘space consciousness’ has developed, with an emphasis on the significance of the spatial. Judith Rugg takes up a ran ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747599579 | ISBN 10: 0747599572
As a novelist, essayist, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as o ... more
View book details£62.00 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781860649530 | ISBN 10: 186064953x
Luce Irigaray is one of the foremost philosophers and feminist thinkers of our day. Her work has had an enormous impact on the visual arts and is widely taught and read across the field - yet the actual implications of this influential body of though ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780747576914 | ISBN 10: 0747576912
'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless ... In our brief mortal lives, we are grinders ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780747558101 | ISBN 10: 0747558108
John Berger writes: 'The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. 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. The people coming together a ... more
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