John Berger
Articles by John Berger
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Society
From “who governs” to “how to survive”
- 05 June 2008
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
Arts & Culture
Why Picasso?
- 28 August 2006
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
