Landscapes : John Berger on Art

A major new work of art criticism from John Berger, one the world's leading art writers

World-renowned art writer John Berger is acclaimed for bringing new perspectives to the ways in which we engage with art. His successful collection Portraits took us on a captivating journey through centuries of art, situating each artist in their political and historical contexts. In Landscapes, a portrait of Berger's own journey emerges.

Through Berger's penetrating engagement with the writers and artists who shaped his own thought, Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Bertolt Brecht among them, Landscapes allows us to understand how Berger came to his own way of seeing. As always, Berger pushes at the limits of art writing, demonstrating beautifully how his painter's eyes lead him to refer to himself only as a storyteller. A landscape is, to John Berger, like a portrait; an animating, liberating metaphor rather than a rigid definition. Landscapes offers a tour of the history of art, told in a way you've never seen before.