Background
Berger, John Peter was born on November 5, 1926 in London. Son of Scientiae Juridicae Doctor and Miriam (Branson) Berger.
critic novelist painter writer
Berger, John Peter was born on November 5, 1926 in London. Son of Scientiae Juridicae Doctor and Miriam (Branson) Berger.
Attended, Central School Art. Attended, Chelsea School Art, London.
Berger began his career as a painter and exhibited work at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s. His art has been exhibited at the Wildenstein, Redfern and Leicester galleries in London. Berger has continued to paint throughout his career.While teaching drawing , Berger became an art critic, publishing many essays and reviews in the New Statesman.Many of his texts, from sociological studies to fiction and poetry, deal with experience.
In the 1970s Berger collaborated with the Swiss director Alain Tanner on several films.In recent essays Berger has written about photography, art, politics, and memory.Berger's most recent novel, From A to X, was longlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize
A Painter of Our Time (1958)
Permanent Red (1960)
The Foot of Clive (1962)
Corker's Freedom (1964)
The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965)
A Fortunate Man (1967)
Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny And the Role of the Artist in the U.S.S.R (1969)
The Moment of Cubism and Other Essays (1969)
The Look of Things: Selected Essays and Articles (1972)
Ways of Seeing (1972)
G. (1972)
A Seventh Man (1975)
About Looking (1980)
Into Their Labours (Pig Earth, Once in Europa, Lilac and Flag. A Trilogy)
Another Way of Telling (1982)
Boris [9] (1983)
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos (1984)
The White Bird (U.S. title: The Sense of Sight) (1985)
Keeping a Rendezvous (1992)
Pages of the Wound (1994)
To the Wedding (1995)
Photocopies (1996)
Titian: Nymph and Shepherd (with Katya Berger) (1996)
King: A Street Story (1999)
Selected Essays (Geoff Dyer, ed.) (2001)
The Shape of a Pocket (2001)
I Send You This Cadmium Red: A Correspondence with John Christie (with John Christie) (2001)
Here is Where We Meet (2005)
Hold Everything Dear (2007)
From A to X (2008)
Why Look at Animals? (2009)
Mural translated from Mahmoud Darwish with Rema Hammami (2009)
Cataract (with Selçuk Demirel) (2011)
Bento's Sketchbook (2011)
A Painter of Our Time(1958)
The Foot of Clive
Corker's Freedom
Berger began his career as a painter and exhibited work at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s. His art has been exhibited at the Wildenstein, Redfern and Leicester galleries in London. Berger has continued to paint throughout his career.
