The shape of a pocket

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Title:

Author:

Berger, John.

ISBN:

9780375718885

Personal Author:

Berger, John.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

264 pages ; 22 cm

Contents:

Opening a gate -- Steps toward a small theory of the visible (for Yves) -- Studio talk (for Miquel Barceló) --The Chauvet Cave -- Penelope --The Fayum portraits -- Degas -- Drawing : correspondence with Leon Kossoff -- Vincent -- Michelangelo -- Rembrandt and the body -- A cloth over the mirror -- Brancusi --The River Po -- Giorgio Morandi (for Gianni Celati) -- Pull the other leg, it's got bells on it -- Frida Kahlo --A bed (for Christoph Hänsli) --A man with tousled hair --An apple orchard (an open letter to Raymond Barre, Mayor of Lyon) -- Brushes standing up in jars -- Against the great defeat of the world -- Correspondence with Subcomandante Marcos -- Will it be a likeness? (for Juan Munoz).

Subject Term:

Art -- Themes, motives.

Art -- Themes, motives. (OCoLC)fst00815381

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From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a collection of essays that explores the relationship of art and artists and includes examinations of the work of Brancusi, Degas, Michelangelo, and Frida Kahlo, among others.

The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order. The people coming together are the reader, me, and those the essays are about-Rembrandt, Paleolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient Egyptians, an expert in the loneliness of a certain hotel bedroom, dogs at dusk, a man in a radio station. And unexpectedly, our exchanges strengthen each of us in our conviction that what is happening in the world today is wrong, and that what is often said about it is a lie. I've never written a book with a greater sense of urgency.
-John Berger