Permanent Red
eBook - ePub

Permanent Red

Essays in Seeing

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eBook - ePub

Permanent Red

Essays in Seeing

About this book

In Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the work of historical artists as well as that of near contemporaries such as Picasso, L?ger and Matisse, he explores the role of the artist, dividing these figures into those that struggle, those that fail, and the true masters. He explains why we should study the work of the past: in order to understand the present and to rethink the future.

First published in 1960, Permanent Red established John Berger as a firebrand critic willing to broadcast controversial opinions on some of the most important British artists of the day, including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.

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Information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781804298459
Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. CoverĀ 
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. ContentsĀ 
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgment
  8. On a Degas bronze of a dancer
  9. Introduction
  10. Who is an Artist?
  11. Drawing
  12. The Difficulty of Being an Artist
  13. Artists Defeated by the Difficulties
  14. Artists Who Struggle
  15. Twentieth-Century Art
  16. Twentieth-Century Masters
  17. The Life and Death of an Artist
  18. Lessons from the Past
  19. The Future
  20. Useful Definitions
  21. A Moral
  22. Index