Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Berger
SeriesPenguin Great Ideas
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:112
Dimensions(mm): Height 181,Width 111
Category/GenreTheory of art
Art History
Painting and paintings
Literary essays
Philosophy - aesthetics
ISBN/Barcode 9780241472873
ClassificationsDewey:701.03
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 24 September 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks. In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and moving sense of how we make art and how art makes us. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Author Biography

John Berger was born in London in 1926. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, to live in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.