Over to You: Letters Between a Father and Son By John Berger
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First off my thanks to NetGalley and Pantheon for an eARC of this book It has been decades since I have read Berger Better known as an art critic than an artist and perhaps as an novelist as well this slim volume mixes the two It is an ongoing conversation betwen John Berger and his son Yves also an artist regarding the perception and practice of an artist Regarding both artistic works and the world and self In ways it is a continuation of Ways of Seeing. How to add chat to an overdrive ebook The ebook format for this book is not recommended There are many reproductions of artwork in here and in the ebook format the images are scrunched together on the page of a pad reader What they are of let alone the detail is almost unrecognizable at times Also on occasion it is hard to determine which of the two is writing again this may be a shortcoming only in the ebook version There is no clear delineation between who is writing when OTOH their conversation a little slow to begin with and moves from postcards to emails it appears becomes an insightful and interesting commentary between the two on art and artists and practice Also at the end of the volume there is a collection of sketches by the two artists. Book over toyo ito Perhaps for Berger completists and active artists only but I still enjoyed the read 4 out of 5Publication date November 12 2024 9780553387575
Compelling and intimate this collection of never before seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist John Berger and his son Yves an artist is a moving look at their musings on art memory life death and beyond.
Grade 10 student book over to you Written between 2015 16 with 53 color images of well known old masters and contemporary art as well as some of the Bergers own drawings and watercolors Over to You is an informal back and forth not unlike the ping pong games father and son used to play in the barn of their house It begins when John who is in a Parisian suburb sends Yves who is in Haute Savoie an envelope of reproductions of art that have moved him And so they begin to reveal their thoughts looking at a Goya Watteau Twombly Joan Mitchell Durer Caravaggio Manet and Euan Uglow among many others But the art is just a way to summon shared emotions and memories as well as deepen their understanding of the world and its mysteries.
The overriding idea in any piece of fiction John at 89 is the formal teacher Yves at 39 comes across as the younger philosophical artist There are John s thoughts on the use of color light and space in say a D rer or a Beckmann to the question of staying fully alive or Yves noting how much in life exceeds our understanding the gap between our consciousness and our feeling between the said and the unsaid That s the zone where I would like us to meet Are you coming He asks his father I may need other eyes to confirm what is really there Like your eyes always did This is an exceptional and moving tribute to a relationship between a father and son and between two artists as well as a thought provoking look at questions we all have about work time the universe life and death Over to You Letters Between a Father and SonJohn Peter Berger was an English art critic novelist painter and author His novel G won the 1972 Booker Prize and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing written as an accompaniment to a BBC series is often used as a college text.
Over to you grade 12 student book Later he was self exiled to continental Europe living between the french Alps in summer and the suburbs of Paris in winter Since then his production has increased considerably including a variety of genres from novel to social essay or poetry One of the most common themes that appears on his books is the dialectics established between modernity and memory and loss Another of his most remarkable works has been the trilogy titled Into Their Labours that includes the books Pig Earth 1979 Once In E John Peter Berger was an English art critic novelist painter and author His novel G won the 1972 Booker Prize and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing written as an accompaniment to a BBC series is often used as a college text.
Forks over knives book Later he was self exiled to continental Europe living between the french Alps in summer and the suburbs of Paris in winter Since then his production has increased considerably including a variety of genres from novel to social essay or poetry One of the most common themes that appears on his books is the dialectics established between modernity and memory and loss Another of his most remarkable works has been the trilogy titled Into Their Labours that includes the books Pig Earth 1979 Once In Europa 1983 Lilac And Flag 1990 With those books Berger makes a meditation about the way of the peasant that changes one poverty for another in the city This theme is also observed in his novel King but there his focus is in the rural diaspora and the bitter side of the urban way of life site_link
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