John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels & stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, "A Painter of Our Time", was published in 1958, & since then his books have included the novel "G.", which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and he lives in a small village in the French Alps.
The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . .
It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that
are now commonplace. --Geoff Dyer Berger has the ability to cut
right through the mystification of the professional art critics . .
. He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the
paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position
to make a meaningful evaluation. --Peter Fuller, Arts Review Over
the past sixty years, the great John Berger -- art critic,
essayist, screenwriter, novelist, poet, and artist -- has made
immeasurable contributions to our understanding of culture and
politics, never more potently than in Ways of Seeing. -The Village
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