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John Berger
Sign in to saveBritish painter, writer and art critic (1926-2017)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 5 Nov 1926
- Died
- 2 Jan 2017
- Works
- 380
Top works
- To Tell a Story
- El último retrato de Goya
- The foot of Clive
- D'A a X
- A Seventh Man
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Writing · Stoke Newington, London, England
John Peter Berger (/ˈbɜːrdʒər/; 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, is often used as a university text. He lived in France for over fifty years.
Known for
- 8 Poems of Emigration — Poet / Narrator (voice)2020
- The Economy of the Dead — Speaker (voice)2017
- The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger — Self2017
- The New Man — Self2016
- John Berger or The Art of Looking — Self - Subject2016
- Taşkafa, Stories of the Street — Narrator2013
- 12.Août.2002 — Self (Voice)2012
- Walter, retour en résistance — Himself2009
- Letter from Gaza2008
- Arrows of Time2007
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 489
- Total plays
- 1,733
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,187x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,528x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,305x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,190x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,820x
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Quotes
- “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”
- “Images were first made to conjure up the appearances of something that was absent. Gradually it became evident that an image could outlast what it represented; it then showed how something or somebody had once looked – and thus by implication how the subject had once been seen by other people. Later still the specific vision of the image-maker was also recognized as part of the record. An image became a record of how X had seen Y.”
- “The uniqueness of every painting was once part of the uniqueness of the place where it resided.”
- “Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society which has moved towards democracy and then stopped half way is the ideal society for generating such an emotion. The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right. Yet the existing social conditions make the individual feel powerless.”
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Key facts
- Born
- John Peter Berger , ( 1926-11-05 ) 5 November 1926, London, England
- Died
- 2 January 2017 (2017-01-02) (aged 90), Antony, Hauts-de-Seine , France
- Occupation
- Novelist critic painter poet
- Language
- English
- Education
- St Edward's School, Oxford
- Alma mater
- Chelsea School of Art , Central School of Art and Design
- Genre
- Writer
- Notable awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize ; Booker Prize (1972)
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Official website
- John Berger home
From Quincy, where John used to live and where now books, drawings, letters and other archives are conserved by John Berger Estate.
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.johnbergerhome.com
- Image
- John Berger-2009 (1).jpg
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- John Berger
- date of birth
- 1926-11-05
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- 2017-01-02
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- name in native language
- John Peter Berger
- birth name
- John Peter Berger
- start of work period
- 1948-01-01
- end of work period
- 2016-00-00
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John Peter Berger (/ˈbɜːrdʒər/ 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. His essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is hugely culturally influential and continues to be widely read today. He lived in France for over fifty years.
Early life