The critic John Berger reflects on his life and art in a film documentary interview on the BBC. You can watch it here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b082qynq/john-berger-the-art-of-looking

Berger is famous for his series of TV films, Ways of Seeing (1972), in which he deconstructed the assumptions and conventions that inform our interpretation of the worlds around us. Berger’s films showed how this was anything but natural, and was to a large extend a social and ideological construct.

Revealing the connection between politics, the individual and cognition was, for Berger, a form of creative and therapeutic practice through dialectical liberation…

You can read the book, available in pdf format, and watch the original TV films on the internet. The last two paragraphs of the first chapter, screen grab below, are crucial in establishing the connection between art and politics and life…