A Painter of Our Time.
"As a young painter you are overwhelmed by the complexity of your subject. Every crease, every dimple, is an equally startling revelation": First Edition of John Berger's A Painter of Our Time
A Painter of Our Time.
BERGER, John.
$50.00
Item Number: 145491
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.
First edition of the Booker prize-winning writer’s debut novel. Octavo, original red half cloth, top stain red. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
English art critic, novelist, painter and poet John Berger won the Booker Prize in 1972 for his novel 'G' and was greatly influential in the arts for his critiques, especially his essay 'Ways of Seeing,' which was accopmanied by a BBC series by the same name. Berger's first novel, 'A Painter of Our Time,' tells the story of the disappearance of Janos Lavin, a fictional exiled Hungarian painter, and his diary's discovery by an art critic friend called John. The work was withdrawn by Simon and Schuster under pressure from the Congress for Cultural Freedom a month after its publication.
