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#### Rarely have authors been able to reveal the hidden connections between art, politics, memory, and death with clarity, John Berger. This collection of essays is the best introduction to his thought. * Before John Berger became one of the most influential thinkers of our time, he aspired to be a painter; Perhaps this is what prompted him, when he wrote, to draw with words instead of just writing. That is why, when he writes about Cubism in these pages, he is not only talking about Braque and Léger, Picasso and Gris, but also about that extraordinary moment at the turn of the last century when the world united around a great sense of hope. When he analyzes Modigliani's works, he sees endless love manifested in the extended lines of the drawn character. Based on his personal experiences, from the Renaissance to the bombing of Hiroshima; From the Bosphorus to Manhattan; From small-town French woodcarvers to Goya, Dürer and Van Gogh; Through his personal experiences of love and loss, all the way to the political turmoil that characterized the twentieth century, this book urges us to look with the same tolerance, courage, and moral commitment as its author. "The Sense of Sight" is not just a selection, but rather a comprehensive map of the thought of one of the most prominent professors of our time. With the eye of a painter and the voice of a poet, Berger teaches us how to understand and change the world. A lesson in clarity, humanity, and theoretical commitment. It is not easy to classify the personality of John Berger (1926-2017): art historian, novelist, poet, painter and journalist, but he was above all a writer, as well as one of the most influential and original critical voices in the contemporary world. Through prose sparkling with poetic sensitivity and unwavering political commitment, he devoted his life to exploring the hidden connections between art and resistance, peasant experience and modernity, life, sensuality, memory, and death.