{"title":"Tom Overton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Overton, \u003c\/b\u003ean archive curator at London’s Barbican Centre,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e catalogued John Berger’s archive at the British Library. He is the editor of\u003ci\u003e Portraits: John Berger on Artists \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eLandscapes: John Berger on Art\u003c\/em\u003e, two volumes of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBerger's writing about art, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eco-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Sea,\u003c\/i\u003e a book of Berger’s writing on mines and mine workers. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOverton’s \u003ci\u003eJohn Berger: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e will be published by Verso Books in September 2026.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"about-looking","title":"About Looking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger was a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout Looking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Berger explored our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow do the animals we look at in zoos remind us of a relationship between man and beast all but lost in the twentieth century? What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles their already potent violence? How do the nudes of Rodin betray the threats to his authority and potency posed by clay and flesh? And how does solitude inform the art of Giacometti?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart of an ongoing reissue of Berger’s major works of criticism and fiction, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout Looking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e quietly—but fundamentally—alters the vision of all who read it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55223336239272,"sku":"9798896230670","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0726\/9203\/files\/berger-withafterword.jpg?v=1776103752"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/collections\/tom-overton.oembed","provider":"New York Review Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}