From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a collection of essays
that explores the relationship of art and artists and includes
examinations of the work of Brancusi, Degas, Michelangelo, and Frida
Kahlo, among others.
The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is
formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The
resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order.
The people coming together are the reader, me, and those the essays are
about-Rembrandt, Paleolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient
Egyptians, an expert in the loneliness of a certain hotel bedroom, dogs
at dusk, a man in a radio station. And unexpectedly, our exchanges
strengthen each of us in our conviction that what is happening in the
world today is wrong, and that what is often said about it is a lie.
I've never written a book with a greater sense of urgency.
-John Berger