John Berger, art critic and author, has died at the age of 90.
John Berger was not only a great writer, but an intellectual who standed out due to his political commitment. He was also one of the most influential art critics of recent years. He trained as a painter at the Central School of Arts in London, but years later, in the middle of the cold war, he gave up painting in order to write full-time, a more suitable medium for expressing his ideas.
He has written novels, essays, plays, films, photographic collaborations and created performances, and his career has been characterised by unceasing exploration. His best-known books include G.– which won the prestigious Booker Prize–, the trilogy Into Their Labours and Ways of Seeing, an essay which is an introduction to the study of images that has become a classic text on art history.
His most recent publications include Landscapes (judiciously selected by Tom Overton for Verso), a fascinating series of encounters with the thinkers who have mattered to Berger, from Brecht and Walter Benjamin to Rosa Luxemburg, Confabulations, that has just been published by Penguin.
"If I'm a storyteller, it's because I listen." John Berger
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