Why Look at Animals?
$19.71
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
26 October 2009
Summary
‘As frequent as the calls of animals in a zoo are the cries of children demanding - Where is he? Why doesn’t he move? Is he dead?’
John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized and reduced to spectacle.
Throughout history, so…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141043975 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141043970 |
| Author: | John Berger |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 26 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 73g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 110mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Penguin Great Ideas |
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About The Author
John Berger
John Berger was born in London in 1926. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, to live in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.
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