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Bento's Sketchbook is an exploration of the practice of drawing, as well as a meditation on how we perceive and seek to explore our ever-changing relationship with the world around us.

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Warmly engaging, philosophical, unpredictable, and, at times, almost unbearably moving... Berger's signature cultural fluency, compassion, and profound sense of beauty and justice coalesce exquisitely in this sketchbook. - Booklist <br> Someone familiar with John Berger as a writer, might have guessed the Spinozian bent of his humanity. Someone familiar with John Berger the art critic certainly knows of his visual sensibility. What a feast it is, then, to discover these two strands of Berger's astonishing body of work united in this treasure of a book. <br>--Antonio Damasio, author of Self Comes to Mind <br> A deceptively brief volume offers profound meditations on art, the creative process and so much more... Whether he's extending an analogy that compares making a drawing to riding a motorbike or discusses storytelling in a manner that could apply just as well to drawing, he makes such interaction and interconnection seem central to the human condition. Berger's readers w

Warmly engaging, philosophical, unpredictable, and, at times, almost unbearably moving... Berger's signature cultural fluency, compassion, and profound sense of beauty and justice coalesce exquisitely in this sketchbook. - Booklist <br> With his clear, sinuous prose, he gives an account of how the contours of reality 'harass' the act of drawing...the book coheres because Berger's is a humane and uniquely confiding voice, and this voice is coextensive with his skill as a draftsman. The two attributes act in concert with Spinoza's enigmatic philosophical propositions. All three constitute a singular act of witness. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> Someone familiar with John Berger as a writer, might have guessed the Spinozian bent of his humanity. Someone familiar with John Berger the art critic certainly knows of his visual sensibility. What a feast it is, then, to discover these two strands of Berger's astonishing body of work united in this treasure of a book. <br>--A

Someone familiar with John Berger as a writer, might have guessed the Spinozian bent of his humanity. Someone familiar with John Berger the art critic certainly knows of his visual sensibility. What a feast it is, then, to discover these two strands of Berger's astonishing body of work united in this treasure of a book. -Antonio Damasio, author of Self Comes to Mind

Someone familiar with John Berger as a writer, might have guessed the Spinozian bent of his humanity. Someone familiar with John Berger the art critic certainly knows of his visual sensibility. What a feast it is, then, to discover these two strands of Berger's astonishing body of work united in this treasure of a book. -Antonio Damasio, author of Self Comes to Mind <br> A deceptively brief volume offers profound meditations on art, the creative process and so much more... Whether he's extending an analogy that compares making a drawing to riding a motorbike or discusses storytelling in a manner that could apply just as well to drawing, he makes such interaction and interconnection seem central to the human condition. Berger's readers will see with fresh eyes. - Kirkus, starred review

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John Berger's many books include Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, the Booker Prize-winning novel G., and To the Wedding.

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