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About Looking by John Berger
$23.99 AUD
Category: Art
Ways of Seeing was based on a BBC TV series and was a ground-breaking, seminal text that completely revitalised and revolutionised discussions about art. About Looking continues this original approach to art and photographyFor fans of the essays of Susan Sontag, especially On Photography, and Camera Luc ...Show more
Another Way of Telling - A Possible Theory of Photography by John Berger
$53.99 AUD
Category: Photography
In one of the most eloquent accounts of photography ever devised (originally published in 1982 and unavailable for many years), the writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr set out to understand the fundamental nature of photography and how it makes its impact. Asking a range of questions - Wha ...Show more
Cave of Bones A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger, John Hawks
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South African caves to discover fossil remains that compel a monumental reframing of the human family tree. In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the ...Show more
Confabulations by John Berger
$16.99 AUD
Category: Writing | 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
Landscapes: John Berger on Art by John Berger
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art
With Portraits, world renowned art writer John Berger took us on a captivating journey through centuries of art, situating each artist in their political and historical contexts. In Landscapes, a portrait of Berger's own journey emerges. Through Berger's penetrating engagement with the writers and artis ...Show more
Landscapes - John Berger on Art by John Berger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art
A major new work from the world's leading writer on art Landscapes, the companion volume to John Berger's highly acclaimed Portraits, explores what art tells us about ourselves. "Berger's work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways," writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume ...Show more
Pig Earth by John Berger
$29.95 AUD
Category: Art
With this haunting first volume in his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of skeptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women; of calv ...Show more
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art
John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both cano ...Show more
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art
A major new book from one of the world's leading writers and art critics John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated art writers, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In Portraits, Berger grounds the artists in the ...Show more
Portraits John Berger on Artists by John Berger
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art
One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. In Portraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Cy Twombly's radical work ...Show more
Smoke by John Berger
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
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
$9.99 AUD
Category: Art | 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