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50 Years after 50 Years of the Bauhaus by Iris Dressler (Editor); Hans D Christ (Editor); Daniel García Andújar (Text by); John Barker (Text by); Walter Benjamin (Text by); Tamar Berger (Text by); Max Bill (Text by); Yvonne P. Doderer (Text by); Walter Gropius (Text by); Danny Hayward (Text by); Helmut Heissenbüttel (Text by); Asger Jorn (Text by)
115.00 AUD
Category: Design
On the legacy of a landmark Bauhaus exhibition and the school's intersection with the Situationist International and other avant-garde movementsOn May 4, 1968, a few hours after student protesters in Paris caused the Sorbonne to be evacuated, the landmark exhibition 50 Years Bauhaus opened at the Württe ...Show more
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred. In A Fortunate Man, Berger's tex ...Show more
A Fortunate Man : The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger & Jean Mohr
23.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Canons
In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred.In A Fortunate Man, Berger's text ...Show more
A Painter of Our Time by John Berger
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Exiled in London, the Hungarian artist Janos Lavin disappears one day, into thin air. His journal offers his friend John the only clues to where he has gone, and why. John Berger's first novel is a passionate exploration of the artistic process, and a gripping detective story.
About Looking by John Berger
23.99 AUD
Category: Art
Ways of Seeing was based on a BBC TV series and was a ground-breaking, seminal text that completely revitalised and revolutionised discussions about art. About Looking continues this original approach to art and photographyFor fans of the essays of Susan Sontag, especially On Photography, and Camera Luc ...Show more
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger
23.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A beautiful collection of fragments about time and space 'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless In our brief mortal lives, we are grinde ...Show more
Another Way of Telling - A Possible Theory of Photography by John Berger
53.99 AUD
Category: Photography
In one of the most eloquent accounts of photography ever devised (originally published in 1982 and unavailable for many years), the writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr set out to understand the fundamental nature of photography and how it makes its impact. Asking a range of questions - Wha ...Show more
Bento's Sketchbook by John Berger
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza-generally known as Benedict (or Bento) de Spinoza-spent the most intense years of his short life writing. A keen draughtsman, he also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notes, but apparently ...Show more
Cave of Bones A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger, John Hawks
36.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South African caves to discover fossil remains that compel a monumental reframing of the human family tree. In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the ...Show more
Confabulations by John Berger
16.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Language is a body, a living creature ...and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and pol ...Show more
From A to X by John Berger
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a dusty, ramshackle town lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But the town is under threat, and as ...Show more
G.: Winner of the Booker Prize 1972: Winner of the Booker Prize 1972 by John Berger
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this luminous novel about a modern Don Juan, John Berger relates the story of G., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the last century as Europe teeters on the brink of war. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and w ...Show more