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Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.66John 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: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.49Booker 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... -
Confabulations by John Berger
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'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... -
What Time Is It? by John Berger
Booksplease Price: $23.02"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... -
G. by John Berger 9798896230557
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $17.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896230557Author John BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
Collected Poems by John Berger
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992740955Author John BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint -
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65John 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... -
Cataract by John Berger 9781907903328
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.85What 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... -
Photocopies by John Berger 9780747531722
Booksplease Price: $19.08This is a collection of portraits of a shepherd, a farmer, a painter and blind man, a sylph of Byzantine arrogance and a vagabond cyclist with primroses growing in her basket. The backgrounds range... -
The Foot of Clive by John Berger 9781838859589
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Introduced 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... -
About Looking John Berger 9780747599579
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.20As 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... -
The Underground Sea by John Berger 9781805302995
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $12.84The 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... -
Ways of Seeing by John Berger 9780141035796
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Based 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... -
Bento's Sketchbook John Berger 9781804298237
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96The 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: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.20Compelling 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 Sense of Sight by John Berger 9781804298695
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.26The Sense of Sight is about our deeply political and human engagement with the visual world. Berger encourages us to question the way we see things, perceive them and ultimately judge what we see. He... -
Keeping a Rendezvous by John Berger 9781804298725
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56To look at a painting is more than just staring at art. It is an encounter, a rendezvous, with a whole world. When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, John Berger sees not only paint but our... -
Why Look at Animals? by John Berger
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07John 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 Red Tenda of Bologna by John Berger
Booksplease Price: $4.65'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... -
A Load of Shit by John Berger 9781912475414
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $7.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475414Author John BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint -
A Painter of our Time by John Berger 9781804298756
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56Exiled in London, the Hungarian artist Janos Lavin disappears one day, into thin air. His journal offers his friend John the only clues to where he has gone, and why. John Berger's first novel is a... -
John Berger Read Paperback by Heath 9780198994183
Booksplease Price: $19.34Iona 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... -
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.03'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... -
Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing John Berger 9781804298473
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.26Controversial 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... -
From A to X: A Story in Letters by John Berger 9781804299890
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56From 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... -
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In 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... -
About Looking: with a new introduction by Tom Overton by John Berger 9781037207983
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11The centenary edition, with a newly commissioned introduction by Berger's biographer, Tom Overton.'Instant readability . . . [Berger] makes one see [paintings] as statements or questions in a living... -
And our faces, my heart, brief as photos by John Berger 9798896230571
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $16.08Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance John Berger 9781804298251
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.40From 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, Hold... -
Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist by John Berger 9781804298596
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56John 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, Neizvestny... -
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer 9781838852115
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05'Wide-ranging and eclectic' TLS'Seductively curious' Observer'A visual and intellectual journey' HeraldSee/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives... -
The Long White Thread of Words: Poems for John Berger by Amarjit Chandan 9780993454745
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993454745Author Amarjit ChandanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger by Joshua Sperling 9781786637437
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.40John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers; as a TV... -
Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction by Kevin Coleman
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.08Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's The Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of capitalism... -
A Seventh Man: A Book of Images and Words about the Experience of Migrant Workers in Europe by John Berger 9781804298565
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56First 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 John... -
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician.This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. As idiosyncratic as... -
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design translated by Patrick Creagh... -
The Language of Things by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In The Language of Things Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, decodes the things around us: their hidden meanings, our relationship with them, how they shape our lives and why we desire them... -
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.51Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag's searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror.'A coruscating sermon on how we picture suffering' The New York TimesWhat is the purpose of... -
Photography and Belief by David Levi Strauss 9781644230473
RRP: $14.67Booksplease Price: $10.72In this exploration of contemporary photography, David Levi Strauss questions the concept that "seeing is believing."Identifying a recent shift in the dominance of photography, Strauss looks at the...