Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger (penguin great ideas)

Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger (penguin great ideas)'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks' In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and moving sense of how we make art and how art makes us. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series.

The woman at the heart of this extraordinary novel finds that everyone she meets has a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience for their experiences

shape of flower

* Shortlisted for the 2021 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize*

he finds himself holed up in his room watching Blue Lives

sharing their greatest fears and biggest discoveries about vulnerability

profoundly moving' Observer

and the urgent need for us to join together in caring for the planet and every creature in it

or as vermin

A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band

"-The Irish Times

revealing the truth that lies beneath

but her role is fixed