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John Berger

John Peter Berger (5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel *G.* won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism *Ways of Seeing*, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is often used as a university text. He lived in France for over fifty years. **Source**: [John Berger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berger) on Wikipedia.

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Permanent Red

Permanent Red

2025
Confabulations

Confabulations

2016
Landscapes: John Berger on Art

Landscapes: John Berger on Art

2016
Portraits: John Berger on Artists

Portraits: John Berger on Artists

2015
Bento's Sketchbook

Bento's Sketchbook

2011
Railtracks

Railtracks

2011

with Anne Michaels

Why Look at Animals?

Why Look at Animals?

2009
From A to X: A Story in Letters

From A to X: A Story in Letters

2008
The Red Tenda of Bologna

The Red Tenda of Bologna

2007
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance

Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance

2007
Berger on Drawing

Berger on Drawing

2005
Here Is Where We Meet

Here Is Where We Meet

2005
The Shape of a Pocket

The Shape of a Pocket

2001
I Send You This Cadmium Red: A Correspondence

I Send You This Cadmium Red: A Correspondence

2000

with John Christie

King: A Street Story

King: A Street Story

1999
At the Edge of the World

At the Edge of the World

1999

with Jean Mohr

Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible

Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible

1997
I Could Read the Sky

I Could Read the Sky

1997
Photocopies

Photocopies

1996
To the Wedding

To the Wedding

1995
Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol

Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol

1995

with Thearte De Complicite

Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays

Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays

1991
Lilac and Flag

Lilac and Flag

1990
Once in Europa: Book Two of the Into Their Labours Trilogy

Once in Europa: Book Two of the Into Their Labours Trilogy

1987
The Sense of Sight

The Sense of Sight

1985
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

1984
Another Way of Telling

Another Way of Telling

1982
About Looking

About Looking

1980
Pig Earth

Pig Earth

1979
Jonah Who Will Be Twenty-Five in the Year 2000

Jonah Who Will Be Twenty-Five in the Year 2000

1978

with Alain Tanner

A Seventh Man

A Seventh Man

1975

with Jean Mohr

Ways of Seeing

Ways of Seeing

1972
The Look of Things: Essays

The Look of Things: Essays

1972
Art and Revolution

Art and Revolution

1969
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

1967
Understanding a Photograph

Understanding a Photograph

1967
The Success and Failure of Picasso

The Success and Failure of Picasso

1965
Corker's Freedom

Corker's Freedom

1964
A Painter of Our Time

A Painter of Our Time

1958
G.

G.

1942
Return to My Native Land

Return to My Native Land

1939

Graphic novels1

War With No End

War With No End

2007

with Phyllis Bennis and Naomi Klein

Box sets & omnibuses1

Into Their Labours

Into Their Labours

1991