by John Berger · TAURUS · tapa dura · ISBN 9788430604944
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«El tamaño de una bolsa» is John Berger's essay book, published by Taurus in hardcover (400 pages, in Spanish).
Berger brings together essays on Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Brancusi, Miquel Barceló, Degas, Michelangelo, Antonioni and Frida Kahlo. Drawing on these works, he reflects on how to look at art and defends resistance against the dehumanization of the current global economic order.
The work was originally published as The Shape of a Pocket in 2001 and is part of Taurus's Pensamiento collection.
For readers of essays, art criticism and social thought with an interest in globalization and philosophy.
John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize. His essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is hugely culturally influential and continues to be widely read today. He lived in France for over fifty years.
