1972, the year he gave hanlf the money from his Booker Prize to the Black Panthers and smashed the conventions both of television and of art history forever ...
On May 22, 2017 / By EditorIf one of the functions of writing is to make the reader see, and see again, here is a brief list of what John Berger made visible. Paintings, photographs, ...
On May 22, 2017 / By EditorBy JONATHAN CRARY I’m going to begin with an observation that I believe would have been of particular interest for the person whose work brings us together today. ...
On May 22, 2017 / By EditorBy ANNIE WYMAN What was storytelling for John Berger? In some ways, it was just exactly what you or I might guess it to be: plots, characters, ordered ...
On May 22, 2017 / By EditorBy RATIK ASOKAN Robert Lowell once expressed his desire to be: Like Mallarmé who had the good fortune to find a style that made writing impossible It’s a ...
On May 22, 2017 / By EditorBy JANE GAINES “Every image,” John Berger wrote, “embodies a way of seeing.”[1] Because of this embodiment the historian who comes later can study the way in which ...
On May 22, 2017 / By EditorBy BARNABY RAINE On the little island where I was born, where we lack the cultural wealth of cable news – of CNN and Fox – our ...
On May 22, 2017 / By EditorBy ANDREW HARTMAN and JAMES LIVINGSTON The following exchange originated on Facebook, where Andrew Hartman noticed that James Livingston was getting agitated enough about the Left’s animus toward ...
On May 22, 2017 / By EditorBy IBRAHIM NASRALLAH Excerpted from Under the Midmorning Sun*, translated from Arabic, and with an introduction by Nora Parr. In the West Bank city of Ramallah the first blasts ...
On May 22, 2017 / By EditorBy JOHN McCLURE The Spanish Civil War haunts the Spanish left. It is a source of pride: a legend of heroic popular resistance to the massing forces of ...
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