12 January 2017
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"John Berger, writer, art critic and poet has died. John Berger, anti-imperialist, socialist man and peasant has died.
It is perhaps inevitable that the establishment should claim John Berger for their own, as the famous critic who provided the BBC and them with ‘Ways of Seeing’ in 1972 – and that despite his Marxism. It was and still is a milestone in interpreting art and ‘the gaze’. But he did not live his life in compartments or by accepting borders –geographical or disciplinary. For many of us who now mark his passing, his greatness lies in his practice as a committed and true intellectual and internationalist...."
See: Tribute to John Berger 1926 – 2017 (IRR News, link) by Jeny Bourne
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