Known for the far-reaching Ways of Seeing book and tv series that brought art history to the masses, John Berger was a prolific writer, critic and commited Marxist. This book takes the form of an extended essay on the Russian sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, the position of the artist in the USSR and a beautiful demonstration of Berger's lifelong belief that 'What matters are the needs which art answers.'
Cover by Swiss American designer Fred Troller who produced some of the most iconic book designs of the twentieth century.
