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SHAPE OF A POCKET

內容簡介

內容簡介 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

各界推薦

各界推薦 年過七十，依舊精力旺盛的John Berger，向來被敬重為英國最具影響力的藝術評論家。他的Ways of Seeing，從社會關係談論藝術，翻轉傳統觀畫的方式，從側面切入，看到了傳統藝術史沒有看到的問題，是使許多人印象深刻，影響深遠的一本書。 本書同時清楚標示了他的馬克思主義色彩，為文熱情、反向思考、大膽批評。二○○一年的新作The Shape of a Pocket，收錄二十四篇，他在蘇黎士、馬德里、瑞典、法蘭克福、赫爾辛基等地以不同語言發表的講演與文章， 初次翻成英文出版，基本觀點集中於對現下經濟全球化趨勢的批評，文字依舊有著濃烈的批評色彩，John Berger曾在訪問中提及，這是近幾年少數幾本迫切著非出不可的一本書。 書中以對法國史前藝術的觀察，古典藝術大師米開蘭基羅、林布蘭、竇加，以及個性強烈的墨西哥女畫家卡蘿，廿世紀雕塑大師布朗庫西（Brancusi）等人的作品，以及相關的歷史社會分析，批評全球經濟掛帥環境下，對藝術的欠缺理解與乏善可陳，是一本權威敢言且殷切提醒的書。

作者介紹

作者介紹 John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and lived in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.

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