Berger, John Peter

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English left-wing art critic and writer. In his best-known book, Ways of Seeing (1972), he valued art for social rather than for aesthetic reasons. He also attacked museums for preserving what is by nature transient. His novels include A Painter of Our Time (1958) and G (1972; Booker Prize).

Other novels include The Book of Clive (1962), Corker's Freedom (1964), and the trilogy Into Their Labours (1991).

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