John Berger & Yves Berger : Over to You, Letters Between a father & son /anglais - Couverture rigide

Berger, John

 
9781849769662: John Berger & Yves Berger : Over to You, Letters Between a father & son /anglais
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ISBN 10 : 1849769664 ISBN 13 : 9781849769662
Editeur : Tate Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

Compelling and intimate, this collection of never-before-seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art, memory, life, death, and beyond.

Composed of letters written between 2015 and 2016, along with images of works by old masters and contemporary art as well as some of the Bergers' own drawings and watercolours, Over to You is an informal back-and-forth not unlike the ping-pong games father and son used to play in the barn of their house. It begins when John, who is in a Parisian suburb, sends Yves, who is in Haute-Savoie, an envelope of reproductions of art that have moved him. And so they begin to reveal their thoughts, looking at works by Goya, Watteau, Twombly, Joan Mitchell, Dürer, Caravaggio, Manet, and Euan Uglow, among many others. But the art is just a way to summon shared emotions and memories, as well as deepen their understanding of the world and its mysteries.

John, at eighty-nine, is the more formal teacher; Yves, at thirty-nine, is the younger, philosophical artist. There are John's thoughts on everything from the use of colour, light and space in, say, a Dürer or a Beckmann to the question of 'staying fully alive.' Yves notes how much in life exceeds our understanding, the gap between our consciousness and our feeling, between the said and the unsaid. 'That's the zone where I would like us to meet. Are you coming?' he asks his father. 'I may need other eyes to confirm what is really there. Like your eyes always did.'

This is an exceptional and moving tribute to a relationship between a father and a son, and between two artists, as well as a thought-provoking look at questions we all have about work, time, the universe, life, and death.

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À propos des auteurs

John Berger was a storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic. One of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years, Berger's many books include Ways of Seeing; the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours; Here Is Where We Meet; the Booker Prize-winning novel G.; Hold Everything Dear; the Man Booker-longlisted From A to X; and A Seventh Man.

Yves Berger is an artist and the author of essays and books of poetry. In 2018, his exhibition From the Orchard to the Garden was shown in Madrid. He lives in a small village in the French Alps.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Compelling and intimate, this collection of never-before-seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art, memory, life, death, and beyond.

Composed of letters written between 2015 and 2016, along with images of works by old masters and contemporary art as well as some of the Bergers' own drawings and watercolours, Over to You is an informal back-and-forth not unlike the ping-pong games father and son used to play in the barn of their house. It begins when John, who is in a Parisian suburb, sends Yves, who is in Haute-Savoie, an envelope of reproductions of art that have moved him. And so they begin to reveal their thoughts, looking at works by Goya, Watteau, Twombly, Joan Mitchell, Dürer, Caravaggio, Manet, and Euan Uglow, among many others. But the art is just a way to summon shared emotions and memories, as well as deepen their understanding of the world and its mysteries.

John, at eighty-nine, is the more formal teacher; Yves, at thirty-nine, is the younger, philosophical artist. There are John's thoughts on everything from the use of colour, light and space in, say, a Dürer or a Beckmann to the question of 'staying fully alive.' Yves notes how much in life exceeds our understanding, the gap between our consciousness and our feeling, between the said and the unsaid. 'That's the zone where I would like us to meet. Are you coming?' he asks his father. 'I may need other eyes to confirm what is really there. Like your eyes always did.'

This is an exceptional and moving tribute to a relationship between a father and a son, and between two artists, as well as a thought-provoking look at questions we all have about work, time, the universe, life, and death.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Tate Publishing
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1849769664
ISBN 13 
9781849769662
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
96
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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