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Sperling, Joshua.
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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Art critics -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Sperling, Joshua.
Berger, John -- Criticism and interpretation.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Art critics -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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A writer of our time : the life and work of John Berger / Joshua Sperling.
by
Sperling, Joshua.
Verso, 2018.
Call #:
921 B496s
Subjects
Berger, John
--
Criticism and interpretation.
Authors, English
--
20th century
--
Biography
.
Art
critics
--
Great
Britain
--
Biography
.
ISBN:
9781786637420 (hc.)
Description:
293 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"The first intellectual
biography
of the life and work of John Berger. John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers. As a TV presenter, he changed the way we looked at
art
with Ways of Seeing. As a storyteller and political activist, he defended the rights and dignity of workers, migrants, and the oppressed around the world. “Far from dragging politics into
art
,” he wrote in 1953, “art has dragged me into politics.” He remained a revolutionary up to his death in January 2017. Built around a series of watersheds, at once personal and historical, A Writer of Our Time traces Berger’s development from his roots as a postwar
art
student and polemicist in the Cold War battles of 1950s London, through the heady days of the 1960s—when the revolutions were not only political but sexual and artistic—to Berger’s reinvention as a rural storyteller and the long hangover that followed the rise and fall of the New Left. Drawing on first-hand, unpublished interviews and archival sources only recently made available, Joshua Sperling digs beneath the moments of controversy to reveal a figure of remarkable complexity and resilience. The portrait that emerges is of a cultural innovator as celebrated as he was often misunderstood, and a writer increasingly driven as much by what he loved as by what he opposed. A Writer of Our Time brings the many faces of John Berger together, repatriating one of our
great
minds to the intellectual dramas of his and our time."--From publisher.
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