2.18 漢清講堂 我負責：
紀念John Berger (1926-2017) ：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berger
0. 奇人
1. 社會關懷： Fellow Prisoners 監獄與高牆 (vs WED's)
2.藝術-文學：
好像在1月5日，我決定2月份的"漢清講堂"要紀念 John Berger (1926-2017)。手頭上約有 John Berger的8本書，約是他的著作清單的三分之一強，再加上報紙的訃聞與YouTube上的影片，所以"評介"這位【生生世世是紅色】 (Permanent Red， 先生之一本作品書名)的藝術家 (極廣義的說法；他跟Susan Sontag (1933-2004)在某些領域的文類類似，都有小說、論攝影、藝術評論、公共知識份子.....)。
John Berger is a storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic,
約30部影片
http://dumpvid.net/topic/john-berger.html
約翰．伯格（John Berger, 1926.11.5- 2017.1.2）
文化藝術評論家、作家、詩人、劇作家等，1926年出生於倫敦。
父親Stanley Berger-- his father had been an infantry officer on the Western Front during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross[3][6] and an OBE.[7] John 自稱他屬第一次世界大戰世代。父親臨終時的素描。
1944至1946年結束服役，代人寫信的寫作訓練。
戰後，進入倫敦中央藝術學院及切爾西（Chelsea）藝術學院就學。老師有Henry Moore等等，同學的故事，參見《我們在此相遇． 伊斯林頓》。這學校屬專科，非大學系統。這點要注意，尤其是大學系統的藝術史、政治學、社會學、經濟學等，與John Berger的，不同世界：John Berger 的現實在"此地"，希望在左派。
1948至1955年開始教授繪畫，並展開終其一生的繪畫生涯。
他的作品曾在倫敦的．登斯坦畫廊、瑞德弗尼畫廊，以及萊斯特等畫廊展出。
1952年伯格決定不做專業藝術家。遍訪大倫敦區各國流亡的藝術家。
開始替以政治、社會問題、書刊、電影、戲劇等為主題的《新政治家》雜誌撰稿，並很快的以一位深具影響力的馬克思主義的藝術評論家身分竄起。伯格至九十歲，一直很活躍。
作品大多具有濃厚的批判色彩，且表現形式不斷的推陳出新，對社會政治等議題也有其獨特的看法及熱情。他被公認為是英國最具影響力的藝術批評家。
伯格的第一部小說發表於1958年，*A Painter of Our Time (1958)[8]
This visionary first novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of To the Wedding and G. is at once a gripping intellectual and moral detective story and a book whose aesthetic insights make it a companion piece to John Berger's great works of art criticism.
3年的辛苦：放棄當職業畫家，寫批評，訪問許多難民，傾聽其故事.....
出版20/30年的後記：萬物老化後的美與成熟
3年的辛苦：放棄當職業畫家，寫批評，訪問許多難民，傾聽其故事.....
出版20/30年的後記：萬物老化後的美與成熟
"'Life will always be bad enough
for the desire for something better
not to be extinguished in men
(Gorky，參見Berger, 1989, p. 5).
- Permanent Red (1960)[52] (Published in the United States in altered form in 1962 as Toward Reality: Essays in Seeing)
1962年結婚，遷居日內瓦：認識瑞士攝影家 Jean Mohr,，合作出書，如《藝術與革命》 Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969).[2] 一書內的近百張照片。
- A Seventh Man (with Jean Mohr) (1975)[11]
A Fortunate Man (with Jean Mohr) (1967)
- Another Way of Telling (with Jean Mohr) (1982)[52]
- At the Edge of the World (with Jean Mohr) (1999)[56]
In 1972 he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize for his novel G.
1974年起移居法國農村 (晚年在巴黎置產)：由 Tilda Swinton 製作、以 John Berger 為題的紀錄片 The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger 亦於2016年 8 月推出
有不少文章和照片記農夫，如《說故事的人》，還有農村"小說"四部曲：He lives in a village in Haute-Savoie the French Alps.
Pig Earth by John Berger
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger, 2016
https://vimeo.com/148352867
This is "TRAILER - The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger" by Bartek Dziadosz on Vimeo,
https://vimeo.com/148352867
This is "TRAILER - The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger" by Bartek Dziadosz on Vimeo,
從那時起他陸續出版了多本藝術評論書籍，包括了有口皆碑的藝術研究作品《觀看的方式》。這本書是以BBC的同名影片裡的某些概念為出發點。
他創造了一種別出心裁的小說體，包括1972年贏得英國布克獎以及布萊克紀念獎的作品G，並與瑞士導演阿蘭．鄧內合作，撰寫電影劇本《2000年約拿即將25歲》，以及多部電影劇本。他還撰寫了多部舞台劇本。
在過去的近四十多年，伯格長期居住在靠近法國邊境阿爾卑斯山的小村鎮裡，深受山中居民的傳統習俗以及艱困的生活形態所吸引，他也以他們為主題撰寫了多部相關作品。
In 2009 he was awarded the Golden PEN award by London PEN for a lifetime’s contribution to literature.
他的力作FELLOW PRISONERS (約2011年)之後，以為準備就緒，沒想到又讀到一篇傑作 An Apple Orchard (An Open Letter to Raymond Barre, Mayor of Lyon)--光這篇，就值得去買{另類出口}譯作 (台北麥田)，而我SLIDES已作成，還覺得只談了原篇交響曲般的文意中的一條線索而已！
現在的資訊發達，可以知道里昂市長(1996-2001) Raymond Barre是法國政壇奇人，他的計畫遷建約1848年建的監獄 (在隆河兩支流之間)，至今也沒落實 (囚犯2009年都遷走了，兩座監獄 (Berger的傑作內有之間的通道，監獄外的人與內部親友之"呼"話......)的建物仍在)。Berger請教森林專家，建議栽種Spartan蘋果品種 (20世紀加拿大的科學選種)，
果樹間相具距6米 (囚犯平均面積3米乘3米，遠比林文蔚 Ewam Lin 畫筆下的台灣鐵窗內朋友寬敞得多多.......)。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Saint-Paul
相關重要著作還有《永恆的紅色》、《畢卡索的成功與失敗》、、《另一種影像敘事》、《我們在此相遇》、《留住一切親愛的：生存．反抗．欲望與愛的限時信》、《觀看的視界》。
Wikipedia的John Berger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berger
Here Is Where We Meet - The New Yorker
影響他的人及組織
馬克思
The human essence of nature exists only for social man; for only here does nature exist for him as a bond with other men, as his existence for others and their existence for him, as the vital element of human reality; only here does it exist as the basis of his own human existence. Only here has his natural existence become his human existence and nature become man for him. Society is therefore the perfected unity in essence of man with nature, the true resurrection of nature, the realized naturalism of man and the realized humanism of nature. [Marx note at the bottom of the page: Prostitution is only a particular expression of the universal prostitution of the worker, and since prostitution is a relationship which includes not only the prostituted but also the prostitutor – whose infamy is even greater – the capitalist is also included in this category.]因此，社會性質是整個運動的一般性質；正像社會本身生產作為人的人一樣，人也生產社會。活動和享受，無論就其內容或其存在方式來說，都是社會的，是社會的活動和社會的享受。自然界的人的本質只有對社會的人說來才是存在的；因為只有在社會中，自然界對人說來才是人與人聯繫的紐帶，才是他為別人的存在和別人為他的存在，才是人的現實的生活要素；只有在社會中，自然界才是人自己的人的存在的基礎。只有在社會中，人的自然的存在對他說來才是他的人的存在，而自然界對他說來才成為人。因此，社會是人同自然界的完成了的本質的統一，是自然界的真正復活，是人的實現了的自然主義和自然界的實現了的人道主義。
Walter Benjamin
"一個人的人生從他死去的那一刻變成故事。"
A. S. Byatt 在《論歷史與故事》說， Walter Benjamin的 《The Storyteller》中說，"一個人的人生從他死去的那一刻變成故事。" 說故事的人，都是逝者的秘書。接過亡魂的字條，以故事向世人轉達。
Max Raphael ( 1889 – 1952), German-American art historian. ..Fellowships awarded by the Bollingen Foundation
Zur Erkenntnistheorie der konkreten Dialektik, 1934, French translation
Prehistoric Cave Paintings, New York, Pantheon, 1945, Bollingen Series, no. 4.
Prehistoric Pottery and Civilization in Egypt, New York, Pantheon, 1947, Bollingen Series, no. 8.
The Demands of Art, Princeton University Press, 1968 (posthumous), Bollingen Series, no. 78.
Landscapes: John Berger on Art
By John Berger
Tom Overton and Verso, 2016
If art ... why does its power to move us endure long after the base has been transformed?
Why, asked Marx, do we still look towards Greek art as an ideal?
If art in the last analysis is a superstructure of an economic base,
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/high-ren-florence-rome/michelangelo/v/michelangelo-medici-chapel-new-sacristy
“The function of the work of art is is to lead us from the work to the process of creation which it contains.”
he asks us to imagine the artist at work
the artist turns raw material into artistic material by shaping it to represent an idea or an object; the artist turns his perception into something external and objective, a representation
Painting ... to developing our historical and evolutionary self-consciousness.
Painting is especially well suited to developing our historical and evolutionary self-consciousness.
John Berger
http://dumpvid.net/topic/john-berger.html
Wiki Berger
Berger is a surname in both German, and French, although there is no etymological connection between the names in the two languages. The French surname is an occupational name for a shepherd, from Old French bergier (Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’). The German surname derives from the word "Berg", the word for "mountain" or "hill", and means a resident on a mountain or hill, or someone from a toponym Berg, derived from the same. The pronunciation of the English name may sometimes be /ˈbɜːrdʒər/ bur-jər. Notable people with this surname include:
For Berger, art criticism is a revolutionary practice.
It prepares the ground for a new society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berger
John by Jean: Fifty Years of Friendship (Jean Mohr, ed.) (2016)
Jacques MEYER《第一次世界大戰時期士兵的日常生活 1914-1918》
Au revoir là-haut By Pierre Lemaitre《天上再見》繆詠華譯，2015
John Berger (1926-2017) ：1926年11月11日11點，胡適在劍橋大學的感動......1977年，我的經驗......
The impact of the first world war in charts How the first world war changed the world ECON.ST 【胡適日記】只是摘要，許多感人的故事沒記。 譬如說，1926年 11月11日，他借劍橋大學基督學院的院長辦公室寫講稿 (演講卻是在ART School)。 當天是第一次世界大戰終戰紀念日，The Cenotaph ，大戦戦没者紀念。 胡適在辦公室看到白髮老油漆工，在梯子中間停下來，虔誠而莊嚴地禱告一分鐘，相當感動。 Today's #Dailychart is a rem
In 1962 he moved to Geneva,....he met the photographer Jean Mohr,
How to begin? Berger answers: In art. There we find proof and prophecy of a different world.
by Berger and Anya Rostock of a poem by Bertolt Brecht. It includes this passage:
Yet how to begin? How to show
The living together of men
That it may be understood
And become a world that can be mastered?
How to reveal not only yourselves and others
Floundering in the net
But also make clear how the net of fate
Is knotted and cast,
Cast and knotted by men?
[…] only he who knows that the fate of man is man
Can see his fellow men keenly with accuracy.
The Polish Rider
JOHN BERGER’S MOTORCYCLE
素描
When I published Losing the Dead (2014), a memoir about my parents’ war and its aftermath, he gave me a drawing he had made inspired by Rembrandt’s The Polish Rider.--Lisa Appignanesi
JOHN BERGER’S MOTORCYCLE
by Andy Merrifield
Journeying for a Sense of Place
The White Bird
the principle of hope and the existence of evil
The problem is that you can't talk about aesthetics without talking about the principle of hope and the existence of evil.
John Berger (1926-2017)
He is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years, who has explored the relationships between the individual and society, culture and politics and experience and expression in a series of novels, book works, essays, plays, films, photographic collaborations and performances, unmatched in their diversity, ambition and reach.
The Song of John Berger
photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, 1994
photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, 1994
body of work embodies his concern for, in Geoff Dyer's words, "the enduring mystery of great art and the lived experience of the oppressed."
Fellow Prisoners by John Berger
2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qCaW1_4LBQ
GRID: Times of Crisis - John Berger and Noam Chomsky (4/22/14)
約從12分起，John Berger 讀
Fellow Prisoners
The best way to understand the world is not as a metaphorical prison but a literal one.
https://www.guernicamag.com/john_berger_7_15_11/
專門錄音
Fellow Prisoners
Fellow Prisoners by John Berger
R Beeswax
John Berger reads his essay, Fellow Prisoners. transcript: https://www.guernicamag.com/features/john_berger_7_15_11/
Magritte And His Defiance Of Life
Magritte and the Impossible
我參訪過1992年美國大都會博物館的 René Magritte回顧展。匠心非常豐富多樣
Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. It was broadcast on BBC Two in January 1972 and adapted into a book of the same name. Wikipedia
Originally published: 1972
Author: John Berger
Page count: 166
Cover artist: René Magritte
Ways of Seeing revolutionized the way that Fine Art is read and understood,
Berger’s documentary, Ways of Seeing.
Walter Benjamin wrote the essay “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Key to Dreams (1935) (La clef des songes)
the image of resemblance—if thought is to become visible
valise
vəˈliːz/
noun
a small travelling bag or suitcase.
Images of Resemblance:
Magritte's semiotic explorations
What one must paint is the image of resemblance—if thought is to become visible in the world.
—Rene Magritte
"The Threshold of Liberty (1929),"
"The Threshold of Liberty (1929)," which does break the single plane with a kind of triptych effect and includes the image of a 15cm howitzer aimed vaguely at the upper left panel, the naked female torso (femme nue).
The Palace of Curtains (1929)
ciel ("sky")
John Berger on Ways of Seeing, being an artist, and Marxism (2011)
1972
Published on Jan 3, 2017
John Berger - artist, writer, critic and broadcaster - has died at the age of 90. His best-known work was Ways of Seeing, a criticism of western cultural aesthetics. For Newsnight, Gavin Esler, met him back in 2011. More from Newsnight archives here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwAXB...
影像的閱讀（遠流） About Looking
As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us of a relationship between man and beast all but lost in the twentieth century? What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles their already potent violence? How do the nudes of Rodin betray the threats to his authority and potency posed by clay and flesh? And how does solitude inform the art of Giacometti? In asking these and other questions, Berger quietly -- but fundamentally -- alters the vision of anyone who reads his work.
The Shape of a Pocket
2003
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 are about–Rembrandt, Paleolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient Egyptians, an expert in the loneliness of a certain hotel bedroom, dogs at dusk, a man in a radio station. And unexpectedly, our exchanges strengthen each of us in our conviction that what is happening in the world today is wrong, and that what is often said about it is a lie. I’ve never written a book with a greater sense of urgency.
–John Berger
J. M. W. Turner
Self-portrait,
art is valuable ...bodies forth the vision of an artist...vs. art is property
the art world has hosted a titanic battle
oil on canvas, circa 1799
John Ruskin described him as the artist who could most "stirringly and truthfully measure the moods of Nature."
Turner and the Barbers Shop 1972
Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, 1842
J. M. W. Turner
(baptised 14 May 1775[b] – 19 December 1851)
英國19世紀最有特色的代表人物
Rouault and the Suburbs of Paris
老師Moreau 1898、父親1912 過世的心理轉型
Georges Rouault, 1905, Jeu de massacre (Slaughter), (Forains, Cabotins, Pitres), (La noce à Nini patte en l'air), watercolor, gouache, India ink and pastel on paper, 53 x 67 cm, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
注意多種畫
無法"神入"繪畫對象，不像波特萊爾
1871-1958 国葬を賜った。
Art, politics and motorcycles
his 90th birthday John Berger or the Art of Looking ...
Published on Nov 7, 2016
Art, politics and motorcycles - on the occasion of his 90th birthday John Berger or the Art of Looking is an intimate portrait of the writer and art critic whose ground-breaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding of the concept for over five decades. The film explores how paintings become narratives and stories turn into images, and rarely does anybody demonstrate this as poignantly as Berger.
Berger lived and worked for decades in a small mountain village in the French Alps, where the nearness to nature, the world of the peasants and his motorcycle, which for him deals so much with presence, inspired his drawing and writing.
The film introduces Berger's art of looking with theatre wizard Simon McBurney, film-director Michael Dibb, visual artist John Christie, cartoonist Selçuk Demiral, photographer Jean Mohr as well as two of his children, film-critic Katya Berger and the painter Yves Berger.
The prelude and starting point is Berger's mind-boggling experience of restored vision following a successful cataract removal surgery. There, in the cusp of his clouding eyesight, Berger re-discovers the irredeemable wonder of seeing.
Realised as a portrait in works and collaborations, this creative documentary takes a different approach to biography, with John Berger leading in his favourite role of the storyteller.
Romaine Lorquet,
1921-2005
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/iainmclauchlan/sets/72157621786457745/
Drawn to that moment
The storyteller
When my father died recently, I did several drawings of him in his coffin. Drawings of his head and face.
昨晚讀這篇很感人的自述 (包括Berger先生對照相與繪畫的不同性質之論述)。然而，中譯有點煞風景。
Drawn to that moment By John Berger (The Sense of Sight, New York: Pantheon Books, 1985, pp.146-151)
When my father died recently, I did several drawings of him in his coffin. Drawings of his head and face.
中譯：引向那個時刻， "加富最近去世，我為躺在棺材裡的他畫了幾幅像。他的面孔與頭的畫像。" (【講故事的人】(The Sense of Sight)北京：三聯，2009，頁186)
hc看法：譯者似乎不知道，Draw或Drawing/Drawn等，是所謂的"素描"(動詞兼名詞)，所以上述引文從文題和第一段的翻譯都走味。
Art is valuable because it bodies forth the vision of an artist;
Art is valuable because it bodies forth the vision of an artist; it is a good in itself just to the degree that it succeeds at this task
Among his last volumes is Confabulations (essays, 2016)
((しばしばこっけい)) 打ち解けて話し合う，談笑する((with ...)).
2〔精神医学〕 〈精神病者が〉作話する.
VERB
[NO OBJECT]
1formal Engage in conversation; talk:
‘she could be heard on the telephone confabulating with someone’
2Psychiatry
Fabricate imaginary experiences as compensation for loss of memory:
‘she has lapses in attention and concentration—she may be confabulating a little’
VERB
[NO OBJECT]
1formal Engage in conversation; talk:
‘she could be heard on the telephone confabulating with someone’
More example sentences
Synonyms
2Psychiatry
Fabricate imaginary experiences as compensation for loss of memory:
‘she has lapses in attention and concentration—she may be confabulating a little’
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
1984:JOHN BERGER ABOUT TIME
theoretical essay And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos contain poetry as well as prose.
Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial experience of viewing lilacs at dusk, and explores the meaning of home to early man and to the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in our cities today. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos is a seamless fusion of the political and personal.
empathy and insight.
models of empathy and insight.
感人的自述 (包括Berger先生對照相與繪畫的不同性質之論述)。 Drawn to that moment By John Berger (The Sense of Sight, New York: Pantheon Books, 1985, pp.146-151) When my father died recently, I did several drawings of him in his coffin. Drawings of his head and face. 他父親臨終時的畫像，請參考John Berger About Time 影片第27分鐘處....
The Shape of a Pocket
另類的出口
(英文、德文、西班牙文)
麥田出版社，2011 有多幅插圖；Verso 新版無圖
我所謂群體意指一小群反抗勢力。當兩個以上志同道合的人聯合起來，便組成一個群體。反抗的是世界經濟新秩序的缺乏人性。凝聚的這群人是讀者、我、以及這些文章的主題人物─林布蘭，舊石器時代的洞窟壁畫畫家，一個來自羅馬尼亞的鄉下人，古埃及人，對描繪孤寂的旅館客房很在行的一位專家，薄暮中的狗，廣播電台的一個男子。意外的是，我們的交流強化了我們每個人的信念，堅信今天在世界上發生的事情是不對的，所說的相關話題往往是謊言。我寫過的書，就屬本書最迫切。——約翰．柏格
1973, Fellow of The Transnational Institute (TNI)
Another Way of Telling
John Berger, Jean Mohr
Another Way of Telling
A Possible Theory of Photography
By: John Berger, Jean Mohr
1982
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“A wonderful artist and thinker” – Susan Sontag
This unique combination of words and pictures includes 230 photographs by Jean Mohr.
It moves beyond the landmarks established by Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag
In one of the most eloquent accounts of photography ever devised (originally published in 1982 and unavailable for many years), the writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr set out to understand the fundamental nature of photography and how it makes its impact.
Asking a range of questions – What is a photograph? What do photographs mean? How can they be used? – they give their answers in terms of a photograph as 'a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photography are often contradictory'. From these beginnings they develop a theory of photography that has at its centre the form's essential ambiguity, arguing that photography is totally unlike a film and has nothing to do with reportage. Rather, it constitutes 'another way of telling'.
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山區農民之生活與工作；照相之經驗與理論
5部曲
“There are no photographs which can be denied. All photographs have the status of fact. What is to be examined is in what way photography can and cannot give meaning to facts.” With these words, two of our most thoughtful and eloquent interrogators of the visual offer a singular meditation on the ambiguities of what is seemingly our straightforward art form. As constructed by John Berger and the renowned Swiss photographer Jean Mohr, that theory includes images as well as words; not only analysis, but anecdote and memoir. Another Way of Telling explores the tension between the photographer and the photographed, between the picture and its viewers, between the filmed moment and the memories that it so resembles. Combining the moral vision of the critic and the practical engagement of the photographer, Berger and Moher have produced a work that expands the frontiers of criticism first charged by Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag.
Review
"Extraordinary... remarkable... suggestive/and/original." -- Edward Said, The Nation.
"One of the world's most influential art, critics ... Berger sees clearly with fresh surprise yet profound understanding." -- The Washington Times
From the Back Cover
'There are no photographs which can be denied. All photographs have the status of fact. what is to be examined is in what way photography can and cannot give meaning to facts.'
John Berger, art critic and author, dies aged 90
The real meaning of art is dangerously emancipating.
A Smuggling Operation: John Berger’s Theory of Art
By Robert Minto
郭力昕：約翰．伯格，說故事的人
鼓舞身處困頓中的人們，「在這個沒有盡頭的無光所在，求存與抵抗，分享着同一支燭光。」
英國Complicité劇團創辦人Simon McBurney 談 John Berger
傾聽者，影像鑽研者，詩人，畫家，觀看者*。我的導師。哲學家。朋友。約翰．伯格今晨離開了我們。而今，你已無所不在。
Listener, grinder of lenses, poet, painter, seer. My Guide. Philosopher. Friend. John Berger left us this morning. Now you are everywhere.
*seer: a person of supposed supernatural insight who sees visions of the future.
Cher, a department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.
Quincy is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC)
Jean-François Millet 1814-75
1873? 老家前徑
Millet and the Peasant
Starry Night by Jean-François Millet
The universe sleeps
And its gigantic ear
Full of ticks
That are stars
Is now lais on its paw --
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (19 July 1893 NS – 14 April 1930)
Hey, you!
Heaven!
Off with your hat!
I am coming!
Not a sound.
The universe sleeps,
its huge paw curled
upon a star-infested ear.
Why we still need John Berger’s Ways of Seeing
Detail from The Judgement of Paris, Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530. Victoria's Secret branding image, 2012
he helped to kickstart a quiet revolution in the way we view the world around us. He encouraged us to question the images which have been the foundation of our culture. That is a truly worthy legacy – and one we must continue.
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