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Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.19John 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 artists... -
The Selected Essays of John Berger by John Berger 9780747554196
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.05Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays will, for the first time, take a... -
Landscapes: John Berger on Art by John Berger 9781836743774
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80Landscapes 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 the... -
What Time Is It? by John Berger
Booksplease Price: $20.67"Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call 'in the meantime.'" --John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was this... -
Confabulations by John Berger
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'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... -
Smoke: 2017 by John Berger
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.34A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Selcuk Demirel. "Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked... -
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for... -
G. John Berger 9781408834343
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62In this luminous novel about a modern Don Juan, John Berger relates the story of G., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the last century as Europe... -
Cataract by John Berger 9781907903328
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.00What happens when cataracts rob an art critic of his sight? John Berger, whose classic book Ways of Seeing has been in print for fifty years, joins forces with Turkish illustrator Selcuk Demirel to... -
To the Wedding by John Berger 9780747599395
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20A mother and father, estranged for years, are travelling across Europe to their daughter's wedding. Vibrant, beautiful Ninon has fallen in love with the young Italian Gino. She is twenty-three years... -
Collected Poems by John Berger
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $8.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992740955Author John BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher... -
Mark Dion by John Berger
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $25.10Mark Dion (b.1961) is an American artist who, in making his art, metamorphoses into explorer, biochemist, detective and archaeologist. In his gallery installations around Europe and America since the... -
About Looking John Berger 9780747599579
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.18As 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... -
Ways of Seeing by John Berger 9780141035796
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Based 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.'Seeing comes... -
A Load of Shit by John Berger 9781912475414
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $7.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475414Author John BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
Corker's Freedom by John Berger 9781836742562
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Underground Sea by John Berger 9781805302995
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $12.36The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and has been edited... -
The Underground Sea John Berger 9781837260386
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners' strikes and has been edited... -
To Tell a Story John Berger 9781837262960
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Published for the first time, John Berger and Susan Sontag's collaboration and correspondence across a quarter-century offers a rare glimpse into the minds of two intellectual giants of the twentieth... -
Why Look at Animals? by John Berger
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the... -
The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger 9780747558101
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.18John 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... -
Bento's Sketchbook John Berger 9781804298237
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.44The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza-also known as Benedict or Bento de Spinoza-spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After... -
Over to You John Berger 9781849769662
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38Compelling and intimate, this collection of letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art, memory, life,... -
The Red Tenda of Bologna by John Berger
Booksplease Price: $3.87'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.'A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the... -
War with No End by John Berger 9781844671847
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.00On October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan, marking the start of George Bush and Tony Blair's "War on Terror." Six years on, where have the policies of Bush and Blair left us? Bringing... -
The Moment of Cubism by John Berger 9781804298633
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Foot of Clive by John Berger 9781838859589
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Introduced by Benjamin MyersIn the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed, guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and likely to die before he can be hanged... -
Here is Where We Meet by John Berger
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62No one appreciates the detail of being alive more than the dead. In Lisbon, a man encounters his mother sitting on a park bench who laughs with the impudence of a schoolgirl. She has been dead for... -
From A to X: A Story in Letters by John Berger
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.14In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the... -
From A to X: A Story in Letters by John Berger 9781804299890
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and... -
The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol by John Berger 9780413696908
Booksplease Price: $18.37Winer of a 1994 Time Out Theatre Award and TMA/Martini Award for Best UK Touring Production Lucie Cabrol is a wild, tiny woman born into a peasant family in France in 1900. Abandoned by her lover,... -
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the... -
John Berger: Ways of Learning Iona Heath 9780192864239
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.45Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger. ... -
Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing John Berger 9781804298473
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.44Controversial first collection of writing on art from John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing.When first published in 1960 Permanent Red established John Berger as a firebrand critic who was willing to... -
John Berger's Ways of Seeing by Emmanouil Kalkanis 9781912303939
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.17Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and... -
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.73'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society... -
Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series by John Berger
Booksplease Price: $14.84"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the... -
Goya's Last Portrait/A Question of Geography by John Berger 9781804298770
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80Goya'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, and... -
Granta 9: John Berger, Boris by William Boyd 9780140068801
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.26Boris is a novella that works on several levels: a love-story, a tragedy, a depiction of pain and self-destruction. It is a moving and strangely understated chronicle of an obsession, but it is an... -
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger 9780747576914
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.13'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...