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Permanent Red

Permanent Red

Essays in Seeing

by John Berger
Paperback
Publication Date: 08/07/2025

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In Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world.

Surveying the work of historical artists as well as that of near contemporaries such as Picasso, Leger and Matisse, he explores the role of the artist, dividing these figures into those that struggle, those that fail, and the true masters. He explains why we should study the work of the past: in order to understand the present and to rethink the future.

First published in 1960, Permanent Red established John Berger as a firebrand critic willing to broadcast controversial opinions on some of the most important British artists of the day, including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.

ISBN:
9781804298473
9781804298473
Category:
The arts: general issues
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
08-07-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Verso Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
129.11x198.12mm
Weight:
0.37kg
John Berger

John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels & stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism.

His first novel, 'A Painter of Our Time', was published in 1958, & since then his books have included the novel 'G.', which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, & he now lives in a small village in the French Alps.

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