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Title: The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger ISBN: 0375718885 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 4
Summary: Berger !
Comment: I have read all his books and keep wishing for more....
Rating: 4
Summary: Pockets of Thoughts
Comment: John Berger small pocket of resistance against the inhumanity of the new world economic order(whatever that is)is a beautiful book of great essays on Rembrant, Palaeolithic cave painters, Leon Kossoff, Michelangelo, Brancusi, Giogio Morandi, Frida Kahlo and a whole lot more.
Very well done and I enjoyed very much.
Rating: 4
Summary: Forget the political pamphleteering
Comment: "The Shape of a Pocket" is perfect bedside reading: the essays are short, meditative and carefully crafted. Berger's prose is pure and airy, and only occasionally he trespasses into the contrived and nearly bombastic. That's irritating but understandable as Berger is constantly trying to get to the deeper layers of what it means to make sense of the world through the 'act' of painting. I suppose Berger, on reading these lines, would remark that conceptualising 'to paint' as an 'act' is completely besides the point. Indeed, what he tries to get across is the 'receiving' nature of being-in-the-world as a painter. Being a real artist is a balancing act: it's a state of dynamic equilibrium between 'self' and 'world', between banality and madness. I believe Berger; his writing breathes integrity and wisdom. He has seen things that many mortals only have faint intimations of. That being said I am less sure about the appropriateness of his insights spilling over into the political realm. The complexity of globalisation is, perhaps, of a different nature than the complexity of a brush stroke. I think it shows, in Berger's language: suddenly the delicacy - holographic in its suggestion of colour, depth and texture - evaporates and we are left with the dull taste of cliche and ideology.
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Title: Selected Essays by John Berger, Geoff Dyer ISBN: 0375713182 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Ways of Seeing by John Berger ISBN: 0140135154 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: About Looking by John Berger, J. Laslocky ISBN: 0679736557 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald, Anthea Bell ISBN: 0375504842 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 11 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Another Way of Telling by John Berger, Jean Mohr ISBN: 0679737243 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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