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A Fortunate Man : The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger & Jean Mohr
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Canons
In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred.In A Fortunate Man, Berger's text ...Show more
Another Way of Telling - A Possible Theory of Photography by John Berger
$53.99 AUD
Category: THE ARTS
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
Bento's Sketchbook by John Berger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History
The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza-generally known as Benedict (or Bento) de Spinoza-spent the most intense years of his short life writing. A keen draughtsman, he also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notes, but apparently ...Show more
Cave of Bones A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger, John Hawks
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
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: Essays & Letters | Series: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
'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
G.: Winner of the Booker Prize 1972: Winner of the Booker Prize 1972 by John Berger
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
In this luminous novel about a modern Don Juan, John Berger relates the story of G., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the last century as Europe teeters on the brink of war. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and w ...Show more
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger
$19.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
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
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art History
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
Portraits John Berger on Artists by John Berger
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art History
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
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art History | 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
The Foot of Clive by John Berger
$22.99 AUD
Category: General | 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
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger And Geoff Dyer
$24.99 AUD
Category: THE ARTS | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. ...Show more