The shape of a pocket / John Berger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berger, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Themes, motives.

Art.

Physical Description:

264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2001]

Summary:

On the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, Pantheon is publishing two extraordinary books by Berger: a collection of new criticism and a gathering of his most insightful and provocative writings on art over the past forty years.

In The Shape of a Pocket, the pocket is, in the author's words, "a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. The people coming together are the reader, me, and those the essays are about -- Rembrandt, Paleolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient Egyptians, an expert in the loneliness of certain hotel bedrooms, dogs at dusk, a man in a radio station. And unexpectedly, our exchanges strengthen each of us in our convictions that what is happening to the world today is wrong, and that what is often said about it is a lie. I've never written a book with a greater sense of urgency."

Notes:

Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0375421475

OCLC:

47270177