Why Look at Animals? by John Berger - ISBN: 9780141043975
Paperback
Lost connection: animals, spectacle, and the way we see.

Why Look at Animals?

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  • Paperback

    112 pages

  • Release Date

    26 October 2009

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Summary

‘As frequent as the calls of animals in a zoo are the cries of children demanding - Where is he? Why doesn’t he move? Is he dead?’

John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized and reduced to spectacle.

Throughout history, so…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141043975
ISBN-10:0141043970
Author:John Berger
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:26 October 2009
Weight:73g
Dimensions:180mm x 110mm x 7mm
Series:Penguin Great Ideas
About The Author

John Berger

John Berger was born in London in 1926. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, to live in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.

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