Selected Essays

About this book

On the occasion of his seventy-fith birthday Pantheon is publishing a gathering of John Bergers most insightful and provocative writings on art over the past forty years. Selected Essays brings together a comprehensive array of writings from Bergers previous collections: Toward Reality The Moment of Cubism The Look of Things About Looking The Sense of Sight and Keeping a Rendezvous. From Piero to Pollock from Kokoschka to La Tour from mass demonstrations to museumsthe ideas in these essays are as fresh and compelling as they were when first published. Polemical meditative radical always original they display a remarkable continuity of thoughtful inquiry and political engagement.