by John Berger · Editorial Debate · tapa dura · ISBN 9788474444254
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At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. In this stunning critical assessment, John Berger trains his penetrating gaze upon this most prodigious and enigmatic painter and on the Spanish landscape and culture that shaped his life and work. Berger follows Picasso from his childhood in Malaga to the creation of Guernica and the pained etchings of his final years, giving us the full measure of Picasso's triumphs and an unsparing reckoning of their cost.
John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize. His essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is hugely culturally influential and continues to be widely read today. He lived in France for over fifty years.
