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About Looking by John Berger
$23.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography
Ways of Seeing was based on a BBC TV series and was a ground-breaking, seminal text that completely revitalised and revolutionised discussions about art. About Looking continues this original approach to art and photographyFor fans of the essays of Susan Sontag, especially On Photography, and Camera Luc ...Show more
Berger On Drawing by John Berger
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art and Photography
Berger began his career as a painter and exhibited work at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s. His art has been exhibited at the Wildenstein, Redfern and Leicester galleries in London. Berger has continued to paint throughout his career. While teaching drawing (from 1948 to 1955), Berger be ...Show more
Cave of Bones A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger, John Hawks
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South African caves to discover fossil remains that compel a monumental reframing of the human family tree. In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the ...Show more
From A to X - Man Booker Longlist 2008 by John Berger
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But Suse is under threat, ...Show more
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Reading Level: near fine
John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both cano ...Show more
The Foot of Clive by John Berger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
From the 1972 Booker Prize-winning author comes an examination of masculinity, social covenants and murder that develops into a masterclass in humanity In the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed, guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and likely to die befor ...Show more
To the Wedding by John Berger
$24.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and erotic. In To the Wedding, a blind Greek peddler tells the story of the wedding between a fellow peddler and his bride in a remarkable series of vivid and telling vignettes. As the book cinematically moves from ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
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