The Sense of Sight
by John Berger | 
Another Way of Telling
by John Berger | 
The Success and Failure of Picasso
by John Berger | 
Art & Fear
by David Bayles | 
Humans of New York
by Brandon Stanton | 
Genesis
by Sebastiao Salgado | 
Color and Light
by James Gurney | 
The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation
by Ollie Johnston | 
The Art of Noir
by Eddie Muller | 
The Unknown Craftsman
by Soetsu Yanagi | 
How to Draw What You See
by Rudy De Reyna | 
Interviews With Francis Bacon
by David Sylvester | 
50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
by Salvador Dali | 
Atmospheres
by Peter Zumthor | 
Portraits
by John Berger | 
Landscape Painting
by Mitchell Albala | 
Syllabus
by Lynda Barry | 
The Map as Art
by Katharine Harmon | 
Architecture for the Poor
by Hassan Fathy | 
Lucian Freud Paintings
by Robert Hughes |
In this book, John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscurity to realize his monumental and very public vision of art. But Berger's account goes well beyond the specific dilemma of the pre-glasnost Russian artist to illuminate the very meaning of revolutionary art. In his struggle against official orthodoxy - which involved a face-to-face confrontation with Khrushchev himself - Neizvestny was fighting not for a merely personal or aesthetic vision, but for a recognition of the true social role of art. His sculptures earn a place in the world by reflecting the courage of a whole people, by commemorating, in an age of mass suffering, the resistance and endurance of millions.