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50 Years after 50 Years of the Bauhaus by Iris Dressler (Editor); Hans D Christ (Editor); Daniel García Andújar (Text by); John Barker (Text by); Walter Benjamin (Text by); Tamar Berger (Text by); Max Bill (Text by); Yvonne P. Doderer (Text by); Walter Gropius (Text by); Danny Hayward (Text by); Helmut Heissenbüttel (Text by); Asger Jorn (Text by)
115.00 AUD
Category: Design
On the legacy of a landmark Bauhaus exhibition and the school's intersection with the Situationist International and other avant-garde movementsOn May 4, 1968, a few hours after student protesters in Paris caused the Sorbonne to be evacuated, the landmark exhibition 50 Years Bauhaus opened at the Württe ...Show more
A Fortunate Man The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger
23.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons
In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred.In A Fortunate Man, Berger's text ...Show more
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger
23.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A beautiful collection of fragments about time and space 'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless In our brief mortal lives, we are grinde ...Show more
Another Way of Telling - A Possible Theory of Photography by John Berger
53.99 AUD
Category: Photography
In one of the most eloquent accounts of photography ever devised (originally published in 1982 and unavailable for many years), the writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr set out to understand the fundamental nature of photography and how it makes its impact. Asking a range of questions - Wha ...Show more
Cave of Bones A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger, John Hawks
36.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
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
Confabulations by John Berger
16.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Language is a body, a living creature ...and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and pol ...Show more
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despa ...Show more
Landscapes - John Berger on Art by John Berger
32.99 AUD
Category: Art
A major new work from the world's leading writer on art Landscapes, the companion volume to John Berger's highly acclaimed Portraits, explores what art tells us about ourselves. "Berger's work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways," writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume ...Show more
Mural by John (TRN) Rema (TRN); Berger Mahmoud; Hammami Darwish
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half-century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession, exile and loss. His poems also display a brilliant acuity, a passion for and openness to the world and, above al ...Show more
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
29.99 AUD
Category: Art | 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
Portraits John Berger on Artists by John Berger
39.99 AUD
Category: Art
One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. In Portraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Cy Twombly's radical work ...Show more
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
22.99 AUD
Category: Art
A major new book from one of the world's leading writers and art critics John 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 the ...Show more