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Berger, John Peter

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Berger, John Peter (1926– )

English left-wing art critic and writer. In his best-known book, Ways of Seeing (1972), he valued art for social rather than for aesthetic reasons. He also attacked museums for preserving what is by nature transient. His novels include A Painter of Our Time (1958) and G (1972; Booker Prize).

Other novels include The Book of Clive (1962), Corker's Freedom (1964), and the trilogy Into Their Labours (1991).

Born in London, Berger studied at the Central and Chelsea Schools of Art, but rejected a career in teaching in favour of writing. In later life he moved to live in a peasant farming community in France.



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