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The sense of sight : writings / by John Berger ; edited and with an introduction by Lloyd Spencer.
Record details
- ISBN: 0394542878
- ISBN: 9780394542874
- ISBN: 0394742060
- ISBN: 9780394742069
- Physical Description: xix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon, ©1985.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- British ed. published as: The white bird.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-299).
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction / by Lloyd Spencer. The white bird: Rembrandt self-portrait -- Self-portrait 1914-18 -- The white bird. Leaving home: The storyteller -- On the edge of a foreign city -- The eaters and the eaten -- Dürer: a portrait of the artist -- One night in Strasbourg -- On the banks of the Sava -- Four postcard poems -- On the Bosphorus -- Manhattan -- The theatre of indifference. Two dreams: The city of Sodom -- The deluge. Love's ABC: Kerchief -- Goya: the Maja, dressed and undressed -- Bonnard -- Modigliani's alphabet of love -- The Hals mystery. The last pictures: In a Moscow cemetery -- Ernst Fischer: a philosopher and death -- François Georges and Amélie: a requiem in three parts -- Drawn to that moment -- The unsaid. The 'work' of art: On a Degas bronze of a dancer -- The moment of Cubism -- The eyes of Claude Monet -- The work of art -- Painting and time -- The place of painting -- On visibility. The unmade road: Redder every day -- Mayakovsky: his language and his death / [with Anya Bostock] -- The secretary of Death -- The hour of poetry -- The screen and The Spike -- Sicilian lives -- Leopardi -- Mother tongue. The sixth of August 1945: Hiroshima -- Of all the colours. Sources and acknowledgments.
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