Verso Books

Verso Books - Portraits | john berger

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• A major new book from one of the world’s leading writers and art criticsJohn Berger
• One of the world’s most celebrated art writers
• Takes us through centuries of drawing and painting
• Revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists
• In Portraits
• Berger grounds the artists in their historical milieu in revolutionary ways
• Whether enlarging on the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves or Cy Twombly’s linguistic and pictorial play
• In penetrating and singular prose
• Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both canonized and obscure
• From Rembrandt to Henry Moore