John Peter Berger (born November 5, 1926) is an art critic, novelist, painter and author. The best-known among his many works include the novel "G.", winner of the 1972 Booker Prize, and the introductory essay on art criticism "Ways of Seeing", written as an accompaniment to a significant BBC series of the same name, and often used as a college text. Wikipedia
John Berger was born on 5th November 1926 to middle class parents in Stoke Newington, London. His father, S.J.D. Berger, O.B.E., M.C., had been an infantry officer on the western front during the First World War. After what he has described as an unhapp www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=380
He talks to Lewis Jones about life as a French peasant, the joy of motorbikes, and his new book MY first sight of John Berger is a surprise. www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2001/07/23/...
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Several of Berger's points about the social function of Art in modern Britain are dilated upon and extended by Graham Harwood (of Mongrel) in his alternative website for the Tate Gallery. courses.washington.edu/englhtml/engl569/berger/
The following if an except from John Berger's Ways of Seeing , put out by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1972. jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jsa3/hum355/readings/berger.htm