Selected Essays brings together a comprehensive array of writings from Berger's previous collections: Toward Reality, The Moment of Cubism, The Look of Things, About Looking, The Sense of Sight, and Keeping a Rendezvous. From Piero to Pollock, from Kokoschka to La Tour, from mass demonstrations to museums{u2013}the ideas in these essays are as fresh and compelling as they were when first published. Polemical, meditative, radical, always original, they display a remarkable continuity of thoughtful inquiry and political engagement
Includes bibliographical references
Selected essays from: Permanent Red (1960) (US title Toward Reality) -- The Moment of Cubism (1969) -- The Look of Things (1972) -- The Booker Prize Speech (1972) -- About Looking (1980) -- The White Bird (1985) (US title The Sense of Sight) -- Ulysses (1991) -- Keeping a Rendezvous (1992)