John Berger - Selected Essays of John Berger

Fernand Léger

1. John Berger, Corker’s Freedom (London: Methuen, 1964).

The Sight of a Man

1. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sense and Non-Sense , trans. Hubert L. Dreyfus (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1964).

2. Merleau-Ponty, op. cit .

3. Merleau-Ponty, The Primacy of Perception , ed. James M. Edie, trans. William Cogg et al . (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1964).

Revolutionary Undoing

1. Max Raphael, The Demands of Art , trans. Norbert Guterman (London: Routledge, 1968).

On the Bosphorus

1. ‘The new dissent: intellectuals, society and the left’, New Society , 23 November 1978.

The Work of Art

1. Nicos Hadjinicolaou, Art History and Class Consciousness (London: Pluto Press, 1978; Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1978).

Mayakovsky

1. V. V. Mayakovsky, How Are Verses Made? (London: Cape, 1970; New York: Grossman, 1970).

2. This is a literal translation by the authors.

3. Mayakovsky, op. cit .

4. Yannis Ritsos, Gestures , trans. Nikos Stangos (London: Cape Goliard, 1971; New York: Grossman, 1970).

Leopardi

1. Giacomo Leopardi, Moral Tales , trans. Patrick Creagh (Manchester: Carcanet, 1983; New York: Columbia University Press, 1983).

A Story for Aesop

1. Danilo Dolci, Sicilian Lives (New York: Pantheon, 1981), p. 171.

2. José Ortega y Gasset, Historical Reason (New York: W. W. Norton, 1984), p. 187.

Where no prior source is indicated, a piece is assumed to have been first published in book form. Otherwise the pieces were first published — sometimes with different titles, in different versions — as follows.

Permanent Red

All pieces first published in the New Statesman

The Moment of Cubism

The Moment of Cubism: New Left Review

The Historical Function of the Museum, The Changing View of Man in the Portrait, Art and Property Now, Image of Imperialism, Nude in a Fur Coat , Mathias Grünewald, L. S. Lowry, Alberto Giacometti, Pierre Bonnard, Auguste Rodin: New Society

The Painter in His Studio : Vermeer: Punch

Et in Arcadia Ego : Poussin: New Statesman

The Maja Dressed and The Maja Undressed : Goya: Sunday Times Magazine

Toulouse-Lautrec: Observer

Frans Hals: Sunday Times Magazine

The Look of Things

Peter Peri, Zadkine, Victor Serge, Walter Benjamin, Painting a Landscape, Understanding a Photograph, The Political Uses of Photo-Montage, The Sight of a Man, Revolutionary Undoing, Past Seen from a Possible Future, The Nature of Mass Demonstrations: New Society

Le Corbusier, Drawings by Watteau, Thicker than Water: New Statesman Fernand Léger: Marxism Today

The Booker Prize Speech: Guardian (24 November 1972)

About Looking

All previously published in New Society except:

Between Two Colmars, Romaine Lorquet: Guardian

Turner and the Barber’s Shop, Rouault and the Suburbs of Paris: Réalities

The White Bird

The Storyteller, On the Bosphorus, The Theatre of Indifference, The Hals Mystery, In a Moscow Cemetery, François, Georges and Amélie: A Requiem in Three Parts, Drawn to That Moment, The Eyes of Claude Monet, The Work of Art, The Hour of Poetry, Leopardi, The Production of the World: New Society

The Eaters and the Eaten: Guardian

Modigliani’s Alphabet of Love: Village Voice

Ernst Fischer: A Philosopher and Death: Introduction to his autobiography, An Opposing Man : The Autobiography of a Romantic Revolutionary (New York: Liverlight, 1974)

Mayakovsky: His Language and His Death: 7 Days

The First and Last Recipe: Ulysses: Guardian

Keeping a Rendezous

Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye, The Soul and the Operator: Expressen

That Which Is Held: Village Voice

A Load of Shit, Imagine Paris, The Opposite of Naked, Drawing on Paper: Harper’s Magazine

Mother: Threepenny Review

A Story for Aesop: partly in Granta , partly in Village Voice Literary Supplement A Kind of Sharing, The Third Week of August, 1991: Guardian

Christ of the Peasants: exhibition catalogue published by the Arts Council of Great Britain

A Professional Secret: New Society

Ape Theatre: Granta

A Household: New Statesman & Society

Erogenous Zone: El Pais