Portraits
Subtitle: John Berger on artists
By: by John Berger ; edited by Tom Overton
Contributors: Overton, Tom, editor
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781784781767
Subjects: Art
Other titles: John Berger on artists
Work titles: Essays
Description: "A major new book from one of the world's leading writers and art critics One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger, takes us through centuries of art revealing his fascination with the artist. In Portraits, Berger connects the artist and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Cy Twombly's radical work. In his penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both canonized and obscure, from Rembrandt to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. A beautifully illustrated walk through many centuries of visual culture from one of the contemporary world's most incisive critical voices"--
Table of contents: title: The Chauvet Cave painters; title: The Fayum portrait painters; title: Piero della Francesca; title: Antonello da Messina; title: Andrea Mantegna; title: Hieronymous Bosch; title: Pieter Bruegel the elder; title: Giovanni Bellini; title: Matthias Grünewald; title: Albrecht Dürer; title: Michelangelo; title: Titian; title: Hans Holbein the younger; title: Caravaggio; title: Frans Hals; title: Diego Velázquez; title: Rembrandt; title: Willem Drost; title: Jean-Antoine Watteau; title: Francisco de Honoré Goya; title: Honoré Daumier; title: J.M.W. Turner; title: Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault; title: Jean-François Millet; title: Gustave Courbet; title: Edgar Degas; title: Ferdinand "Le facteur" Cheval; title: Paul Cézanne; title: Claude Monet; title: Vincent van Gogh; title: Käthe Kollwitz; title: Henri Matisse; title: Pablo Picasso; title: Fernand Léger; title: Ossip Zadkine; title: Henry Moore; title: Peter Lazslo Peri; title: Alberto Giacometti; title: Mark Rothko; title: Robert Medley; title: Frida Kahlo; title: Francis Bacon; title: Renato Guttuso; title: Jackson Pollock; title: Pollock and Lee Krasner; title: Abidin Dino; title: Nicolas de Staël; title: Prunella Clough; title: Sven Blomberg; title: Friso Ten Holt; title: Peter de Francia; title: Francis Newton Souza; title: Yvonne Barlow; title: Ernst Neizvestny; title: Leon Kossoff; title: Anthony Fry; title: Cy Twombly; title: Frank Auerbach; title: Vija Celmins; title: Michael Quanne; title: Maggi Hambling; title: Liane Birnberg; title: Peter Kennard; title: Andres Serrano; title: Juan Muñoz; title: Rostia Kunovsky; title: Jaume Plensa; title: Cristina Iglesias; title: Martin Noel; title: Jean-Michel Basquiat; title: Marisa Camino; title: Christoph Hänsli; title: Michael Broughton; title: Randa Mdah.