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Sobre los artistas. Vol. 1

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“Siempre he detestado que digan que soy crítico de arte.” Así presenta John Berger esta antología completa de todos sus ensayos sobre artistas. Y ciertamente sería poco fiel a la realidad reducir a la categoría de crítico de arte a uno de los intelectuales europeos que no solo ha sabido diseccionar la obra plástica de tantos artistas, sino que ha aportado nuevos enfoques sobre la propia naturaleza del lenguaje visual y su papel en la cultura contemporánea. Este es el primero de dos volúmenes donde por primera vez se recogen de forma exhaustiva todos los textos que John Berger dedicó a los artistas que le enseñaron y le inspiraron a través de sus vidas y sus obras. Compilados por Tom Overton a partir de los archivos que Berger donó aun en vida a la British Library, los textos de este primer volumen abarcan desde las pinturas prehistóricas de la cueva de Chauvet hasta el advenimiento de la modernidad con Paul Cezánne, mientras que los del segundo volumen incluyen ensayos que abarcan desde Claude Monet hasta Randa Mdah, una artista palestina nacida en 1983. De todos ellos se desprende la inconmensurable capacidad observadora y narrativa de Berger que durante décadas ha iluminado con nuevos sentidos y valores a distintas generaciones de lectores. Una obra rigurosa e imprescindible para conocer el legado de Berger.

328 pages, Paperback

Published October 5, 2017

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John Berger

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John 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.

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