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BRITISH ART CRITIC, Marxist intellectual and prodigious author John Berger has died aged 90.
Berger’s pioneering 1972 book and the BBC series it spawned, Ways of Seeing, ushered in a political perspective to art criticism and is seen as one of the most influential art programmes ever made.
Simon McBurney, the British actor and a friend of Berger’s told The Associated Press that Berger died Monday at his home in the Paris suburb of Antony. McBurney said Berger had been ill for about a year.
Berger was the author of art criticism, novels, poetry, screenplays and many less classifiable books.
He consistently challenged traditional interpretations of art and society and connections between the two.
When he won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1972 for his novel, G, he pledged to give half his reward to the Black Panthers.
- With reporting by Rónán Duffy
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Here we go again.I can’t believe that more people are going to die this year! Is it ever going to stop?
You don’t need to mention everyone famous ish person that dies lads.Give it a rest for the new year please!
Maybe made more difference than you will?
Derek everybody in their own right can make a difference.. You don’t have to be on TV or writing for The Times to make a difference in life..
Journal, what Gooney means is that you should only cover deaths of celebrities who he or she might have heard off.
*of
#f**k2017
Charlie he was 90 ffs
Yeah, he lived a good life. Go on 2017, you’re alight.
A huge loss to the world. RIP
Not another one. When will it stop?
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