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John Berger writes: 'The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. The people coming together are the reader, me and those the essays…
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Honestly, I love anything that was written by John Berger. And though many of us turn to his Ways of Seeing to better understand art, I found this collection of essays about art to be even more expansive, even more thought-provoking.
Berger always wrote from a certain political perspective, but he was never dogmatic. He was not an ideologue. Above all, this book (and all his books) offer little glimpses of the unexplainable effect of art, of the way that the artist must wrestle with the art and that nothing is ever definitive. Whenever I feel like the world is…
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