Permanent Red: Essays in SeeingWhy should an artists way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artists intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political In Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the work of historical artists as well as that of near contemporaries such as Picasso, Lger and Matisse, he explores the role of the

and the arts joined him in an in-depth consideration of the six great ideas that are the subject of this book: Truth

Noorin Khamisani

New Orleans’s aboveground mausoleums

Tracing the history of capitalism from the great transformation of the industrial revolution onwards

If a small elite owns today’s economy

and glimpses of the human condition

Many of their inhabitants are regarded as “people without history”

and love starts to bloom

Anouk Beckers

a type of armour

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years―an epic of love and family

Girard does not offer us a theory of literature but literature as theory