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John Berger in His Own Bruised Time

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John Berger in His Own Bruised Time
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These days, we tend to take his ideas for granted: that art — making it or contemplating it — creates knowledge. That by foregrounding the processes by which we see, we can discover the mechanisms and deceptions through which we make meaning. And, of course, that it’s important to know who is footing the bill. John Berger, who died in 2017, was famous not for challenging the Western canon but for making its revelations feel so evidently connected to everything else about lif

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