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Confabulations by John Berger
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Modern Classics
'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 itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and pol ...Show more
I Could Read the Sky by Timothy O'Grady (Text by); Steve Pyke (Photographer); John Berger (Introduction by)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"This is a lyrical novel in which the words wind their way through and alongside a sequence of black and white images. It tells the story of a man coming of age in the middle years of the twentieth century, who leaves Ireland for the promise of English wealth. Now, in the last hours of his life, he reme ...Show more
Smoke by John Berger
$29.95 AUD
Category: Something Special!
A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Sel�uk Demirel. "Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked." This charming illustrated work reflects on the cultural implications of smoking, and suggests, throu ...Show more
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
$15.00 AUD
Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'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 and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and moving sense of how we make art and how art makes u ...Show more
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger And Geoff Dyer
$25.00 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
John 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 exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
$25.00 AUD
Category: Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
Why Look at Animals? by John Berger
$15.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
John 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 modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized an ...Show more
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