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From the NS archive: John Berger on Picasso

John Berger — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:37:05 GMT

It was at the New Statesman that John Berger made his reputation, contributing his first article in 1951 at the age of 24 and writing regularly thereafter as the magazine�s art critic. In this extract he explains the appeal of Pablo Picasso

Resistance is fertile

John Berger — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:18:40 GMT

The novelist and art critic recalls an Easter visit to the National Gallery and a strange and violent encounter with an attendant

From �who governs� to �how to survive�

John Berger — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:43:01 GMT

John Berger, the cultural critic and Marxist radical, was this magazine's art correspondent during the 1950s. Thirty years later, he contributed this insightful essay on the crisis of the public intellectual in Europe. He argued that the insatiable demands of consumerism, and the dominance of advertising and public relations in political as well as cultural life, were overwhelming the more subtle and valuable tradition of intellectualism

Why Picasso?

John Berger — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Taken from the New Statesman archive, 15 May 1954. It was at the New Statesman that Berger made his reputation, contributing his first article in 1951 at the age of 24 and writing regularly thereafter, as the magazine's art critic and occasionally as a commentator on wider matters, for ten years. Later he wrote for New Society. Selected by Brian Cathcart