Male teorije vidnega : izbrana besedila

by John Berger, Rebeka Vidrih (urednica), Marko Jenko (prevajatelj)

Izbor Bergerjevih spisov slovenskemu občinstvu predstavlja vsa ključna področja njegovih razmislekov: izhodišča njegove likovne kritike (besedila o dejanju risanja kot temeljni dejavnosti likovne umetnosti na eni ter o marksističnih umetnostnih zgodovinarjih, ki so ga navdihnili k politično usmerjenemu razumevanju umetnosti, na drugi strani); programska besedila njegovega lastnega dela kot likovnega kritika; na tej podlagi obravnave obširnejših poglavij iz zgodovine umetnosti (renesansa, kubizem) in posameznih umetnikov (starih mojstrov in sodobnih slikarjev); bolj teoretsko zastavljene premisleke o vizualnih medijih (slikarstvo, fotografija, film); nekaj političnih komentarjev; besedila o živalih in o motociklizmu (ki iz zgoraj začrtanega opusa precej izstopajo, gre pa vendarle za temi, ki sta Bergerju osebno veliko pomenili). S spremno besedo bosta bralcu ponujena tudi komentar teh spisov ter predstavitev njihovega mesta v Bergerjevem kritiškem opusu.

364 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

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.