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Siempre rojo: Ensayos sobre el mirar (GG clásicos)
El título Siempre rojo no implica que nunca fuera a cambiar. Quería decir con ello que nunca comprometería mi oposición a la cultura y la sociedad burguesas.
Publicados por primera vez en 1960, los ensayos reunidos en este libro fueron escritos entre 1954 y 1959 en forma de artículo para la revista marxista New Statesman, con la que John Berger colaboró durante más de una década.
En evidente oposición al gusto burgués —de ahí el título—, el crítico de arte nos acerca de forma íntima y cálida a varios artistas, algunos de ellos minoritarios o desconocidos en ese momento, para hablarnos de sus dificultades y sus luchas, sus éxitos y sus fracasos. Una nueva mirada muy lejana a la de la historiografía convencional de quien comprende el arte y el artista en el contexto cambiante de la historia.
Publicados por primera vez en 1960, los ensayos reunidos en este libro fueron escritos entre 1954 y 1959 en forma de artículo para la revista marxista New Statesman, con la que John Berger colaboró durante más de una década.
En evidente oposición al gusto burgués —de ahí el título—, el crítico de arte nos acerca de forma íntima y cálida a varios artistas, algunos de ellos minoritarios o desconocidos en ese momento, para hablarnos de sus dificultades y sus luchas, sus éxitos y sus fracasos. Una nueva mirada muy lejana a la de la historiografía convencional de quien comprende el arte y el artista en el contexto cambiante de la historia.
233 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 2, 2024
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John Berger
240 books2,640 followersJohn Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a college text.
Later he was self exiled to continental Europe, living between the french Alps in summer and the suburbs of Paris in winter. Since then, his production has increased considerably, including a variety of genres, from novel to social essay, or poetry. One of the most common themes that appears on his books is the dialectics established between modernity and memory and loss,
Another of his most remarkable works has been the trilogy titled Into Their Labours, that includes the books Pig Earth (1979), Once In Europa (1983) Lilac And Flag (1990). With those books, Berger makes a meditation about the way of the peasant, that changes one poverty for another in the city. This theme is also observed in his novel King, but there his focus is more in the rural diaspora and the bitter side of the urban way of life.
Later he was self exiled to continental Europe, living between the french Alps in summer and the suburbs of Paris in winter. Since then, his production has increased considerably, including a variety of genres, from novel to social essay, or poetry. One of the most common themes that appears on his books is the dialectics established between modernity and memory and loss,
Another of his most remarkable works has been the trilogy titled Into Their Labours, that includes the books Pig Earth (1979), Once In Europa (1983) Lilac And Flag (1990). With those books, Berger makes a meditation about the way of the peasant, that changes one poverty for another in the city. This theme is also observed in his novel King, but there his focus is more in the rural diaspora and the bitter side of the urban way of life.
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