What John Berger Saw That We Still Don’t, with Tom Overton

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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm senior producer Mia Sarrenti. What does it mean to really look at a work of art? And more than fifty years after Ways of Seeing, what can John Burgess still teach us about the relationship between culture, politics, and power? On today's episode, Tom Overton, writer, editor, and researcher, joined Shahida Bari to discuss his new book John Burger, From Life, and the ideas, political commitments and collaborations that shaped one of the most influential cultural thinkers of the twentieth century. Let's join our host, Shaheed A Bari, now with more.

Hello, I'm Shahidor Bari and I'm talking to Tom Overton today about his new book John Burger from Life. John Burger was one of the artistic polymaths of the twentieth century in our our cultural life. He was a painter, a novelist, a poet, a critic, a broadcaster, um and perhaps above all other things a storyteller. uh many people will remember his nineteen seventy two television series Ways of Seeing and how that transformed the generations of people, uh the way that they thought about art, challenging the authority of the museum and the art historian. on the supposedly neutral act of looking. But Burger's interests ranged far beyond paintings, too. He wrote about migration and labor, uh, peasants and animals, politics.

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