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Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despa ...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
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
29.99 AUD
Category: Art | Reading Level: near fine
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
Return to My Native Land by Aimé Césaire; John Berger (Translator); Anna Bostock (Translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.' This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the negritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one man's return from Europe to his homeland of Martinique, it is a reckoning with the trauma of slave ...Show more
Smoke by John Berger
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
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: Culture & 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
The Foot of Clive by John Berger
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
From the 1972 Booker Prize-winning author comes an examination of masculinity, social covenants and murder that develops into a masterclass in humanity In the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed, guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and likely to die befor ...Show more
The Klutz Book of Animation & Clay by John Cassidy & Nicholas Berger
24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Klutz | Reading Level: 9-12
Welcome to world of animation. It used to take an empire the size of the Magic Kingdom to make an animated film. Today, making movie magic with stop motion animation requires a laptop, a camera, and an internet connection. The Klutz Book of Animation is a complete how-to treatment of this newly accessib ...Show more
The Red Tenda of Bologna (Mini Modern Classics) by John Berger
2.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.'A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the visionary thinker and art critic.
To the Wedding by John Berger
23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and erotic. In To the Wedding, a blind Greek peddler tells the story of the wedding between a fellow peddler and his bride in a remarkable series of vivid and telling vignettes. As the book cinematically moves from ...Show more