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   Who was John Berger?

   • Essayist, art critic, poet, painter and novelist, John Berger was one of the most influential voices of the mid to late 20th century. As an outspoken art critic, he took a vanguard position, critiquing the prevalent trends of Abstract Expressionism and defending the place of realism.

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   Was John Berger a socio-political writer?

   • Along with his work as an essayist and art critic, John Berger was also a prolific novelist, and he wrote many stories with a socio-political slant. The first of these was the novel A Painter for Our Time, published in 1958, and this book followed Berger’s early experiences as a young graduate in postwar London.

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   What happened to John Berger?

   • The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. John Berger has died at the age of 90. Most well-known for his early 1970s television series Ways of Seeing and the popular book that followed it, Berger was a critic, painter, film-maker, novelist, poet, translator, and, always, a radical.

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   Is John Berger dead or still alive?

   • "John Berger: a life in writing". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 August 2021. ^ "John Berger dead: Booker Prize-winning author and art critic dies aged 90". Independent. 2 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017. ^ "RIP John Berger, Famous British Novelist, Art Critic and Secret GTA: London Villain". Rockstar Games. 3 January 2017.

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   What books did John Berger write?

   • Berger later wrote the fictional stories A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor, 1967, and A Seventh Man, 1975, both which commented on the migrant workers of Europe. In 1972, John Berger published his best-known novel titled G: A Novel, which won him the Man Booker Prize in the same year.

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   What does John Berger say about his paintings?

   • Displaying his trophy, the man addresses his audience: ‘Tonight it isn’t so much the paintings themselves that I want to consider,’ he declares, ‘as the way we now see them.’ It was 1972 and John Berger was the vulpine vandal in the first episode of the BBC TV series Ways of Seeing.

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   John Peter Berger (/ ˈ b ɜːr dʒ ər / BUR-jər; 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, was influential. He lived in France for over fifty ...

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   John Berger was a British essayist and cultural thinker as well as a prolific novelist, poet, translator, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel G. and his book and BBC series Ways of Seeing.

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   Jan 5, 2017 · Berger, who died on January 2 at the age of 90, has had a profound influence on the popular understanding of art and the visual image. He was also a vibrant example of the public intellectual,...

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   Apr 1, 2022 · Essayist, art critic, poet, painter and novelist, John Berger was one of the most influential voices of the mid to late 20th century. As an outspoken art critic, he took a vanguard position, critiquing the prevalent trends of Abstract Expressionism and defending the place of realism.

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   Jan 5, 2017 · How John Berger deciphered the language of art. The critic and writer, who died this week, gave a new perspective on how art defines humanity, says Catherine Slessor. In a gallery lined with Renaissance masterpieces, a vulpine-looking man strides up to Botticelli’s famous painting of the goddess Venus surveying a prostrate Mars.

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   Jan 4, 2017 · John Berger has died at the age of 90. Most well-known for his early 1970s television series Ways of Seeing and the popular book that followed it, Berger was a critic, painter, film-maker, novelist, poet, translator, and, always, a radical.

9. www.bbc.co.uk › news › entertainment-arts-38492516John Berger, art critic and author of Ways of Seeing, dies - BBC

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   Jan 2, 2017 · Art critic and author John Berger has died at the age of 90. His best-known work was Ways of Seeing, a criticism of western cultural aesthetics, but he also won the Booker Prize for his novel G.