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伯格那些關於藝術作為理解世界方式的晦澀著 indebted to John Berger, whose runic books about art as a mode of understanding the world signal, 作，如同傑里科的畫作一樣，標誌著藝術流派從古典主義到浪漫主義的關鍵性轉變。 'I have to turn this prize against itself'—John Berger on accepting the Booker Prize for Fiction, 1972年，約翰·伯格以小說《G》榮獲布克獎。他將一半的獎金捐給了黑豹黨——「這個國家裡我最認同的、具有社會主義和革命色彩的黑人運動」。另一半獎金則用於資助他的小說《第七個人》，這部作品講述了他在歐洲的移民工人的故事。《我們這個時代的畫家》（1958）「生活總是糟糕透頂，以至於人們對美好事物的渴望不會在人們心中熄滅（Berger，1989，第5頁）作者創作的極具遠見的首部小說，既是一部引人入勝、發人深省的道德偵探小說，又是一部美學洞見與約翰·伯格的偉大藝術評論作品相得益彰的作品。。John Berger的英文很好聽。2017年除夕，讀到John Berger 在2011年寫/讀的 Fellow Prisoners。其中一段：超過六百萬墨西哥男女在美國非法務工，因此屬於非法移民。美國曾計劃沿著美墨邊境建造一道長達一千多公里的混凝土牆和一道由一千八百座瞭望塔組成的「虛擬」邊境牆，但這些計劃最近已被取消。當然，人們總會找到繞過這些限制的方法──儘管這些方法都十分危險。 Over six million Mexican women and men work in the US without papers and are consequently illegal. A concrete wall of over one thousand kilometers and a “virtual” wall of eighteen hundred watchtowers were planned along the frontier between the US and Mexico, although the projects have recently been scrapped. Ways around them—though all of them dangerous—will of course be found.

“How It Feels to Be Alive” is a blend of criticism and personal history in the style of Olivia Laing, Maggie Nelson and Teju Cole, among others, all of them indebted to John Berger, whose runic books about art as a mode of understanding the world signal, like the paintings of Géricault, a genre’s crucial break from classicism into romanticism. O’Grady’s novelty is to incorporate into that familiar style her interviews with artists, several of them conducted for T: The New York Times Style Magazine.

《活著的感覺》融合了評論和個人經歷，風格與奧利維亞·萊恩、瑪吉·尼爾森和特朱·科爾等人的作品相似，他們都深受約翰·伯格的影響。伯格那些關於藝術作為理解世界方式的晦澀著作，如同傑里科的畫作一樣，標誌著藝術流派從古典主義到浪漫主義的關鍵性轉變。奧格雷迪的創新之處在於，她將自己對藝術家的採訪融入到這種熟悉的風格中，其中一些採訪是為《紐約時報》旗下時尚雜誌《T》進行的。

她是一位善於思考的訪談者，對受訪者充滿真誠的好奇心。本書最精彩的部分「家園之火」將已故行為藝術家波普·L的生平——他以手腳並用的「爬行」方式在紐約街頭遊蕩，揭示了無家可歸給城市居民帶來的關於種族、金錢、厭惡和黑色幽默的奇特而深刻的體驗——與奧格雷迪自己位於芝加哥的公寓被大火燒毀的故事巧妙地交織在一起。在這裡，她的觀點完全正確：藝術標記並折射我們的經驗。無論是聚焦在她自身的情感體驗，或是聚焦在某位藝術家的視角，她都展現出自信和敏銳。

She is a thoughtful interviewer, sincerely curious about her subjects. The book’s finest section, “Home Fires,” weaves together a profile of the late performance artist Pope.L — whose revelatory “crawls” through New York on his hands and knees distilled the strange visceral lessons about race, money, revulsion and dark humor that homelessness offers a city dweller — with the story of the fire that destroyed O’Grady’s own Chicago apartment. Here, she is absolutely correct that art marks and diffracts our experience. Focused on her own affective experience or on the viewpoint of an individual artist, she is assured and sensitive.

「我必須利用這個獎項本身的力量」——約翰·伯格在1972年11月23日接受布克獎時說道

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1972年，約翰·伯格以小說《G》榮獲布克獎。他將一半的獎金捐給了黑豹黨——「這個國家裡我最認同的、具有社會主義和革命色彩的黑人運動」。另一半獎金則用於資助他的小說《第七個人》，這部作品講述了他在歐洲的移民工人的故事。

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2280-stokely-carmichael-s-black-power-address

139 紀念 John Berger (鍾漢清) 2017-02-18

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斯托克利·卡邁克爾的黑人權力演講

1966 年末，在塞爾瑪運動之後，斯托克利·卡邁克爾在密西西比州的一次集會上被捕。獲釋後，他倡導黑人權力，這標誌著他與非暴力抵抗理論的決裂。深受弗朗茨·法農及其代表作《地球上的受苦者》以及馬爾科姆·X等人的影響，卡邁克爾領導學生非暴力協調委員會（SNCC）走向更激進的方向。 1967 年 5 月，他辭去主席職務，並與黑豹黨建立了更緊密的聯繫。為了慶祝他的誕辰紀念日，我們刊登了他於 1966 年 10 月在加州大學柏克萊分校發表的演講稿，闡述了他 49 年前的目標。

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'I have to turn this prize against itself'—John Berger on accepting the Booker Prize for Fiction, 23 November 1972

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In 1972, John Berger won the Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel G. He shared half of the proceeds with the Black Panthers, "the black movement with the socialist and revolutionary perspective that I find myself most in agreement with in this country". The other half funded A Seventh Man, his study of migrant workers in Europe.

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139 紀念 John Berger (鍾漢清) 2017-02-18

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Stokely Carmichael's Black Power Address

In late 1966, Stokely Carmichael was arrested during a Mississippi rally in the aftermath of the Selma campaign. On his release, he advocated Black Power, representing a break with the theory of nonviolent resistance. Strongly influenced by the work of Frantz Fanon and his landmark book Wretched of the Earth, along with others such as Malcolm X, Carmichael led SNCC to become more radical. He resigned as chairman in May 1967 and became more closely aligned with the Black Panther Party. To celebrate the anniversary of his birth, we publish the text of his speech delivered at the University of California at Berkeley expounding on his aims forty-nine years ago in October 1966.

台中國美館翻讀

《我們這個時代的畫家》（1958）這部由布克獎得主、《婚禮進行曲》和《G.》的作者創作的極具遠見的首部小說，既是一部引人入勝、發人深省的道德偵探小說，又是一部美學洞見與約翰·伯格的偉大藝術評論作品相得益彰的作品。

A Painter of Our Time (1958)

This visionary first novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of To the Wedding and G. is at once a gripping intellectual and moral detective story and a book whose aesthetic insights make it a companion piece to John Berger's great works of art criticism.

3年的辛苦：放棄當職業畫家，寫批評，訪問許多難民，傾聽其故事.....

出版20/30年的後記：萬物老化後的美與成熟

"'Life will always be bad enough

for the desire for something better

not to be extinguished in men

(Berger, 1989, p. 5).

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近日常聽YouTube。昨天妻說John Berger的英文很好聽。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O13oDMvR02Q

2017年除夕，讀到John Berger 在2011年寫/讀的 Fellow Prisoners。其中一段：

超過六百萬墨西哥男女在美國非法務工，因此屬於非法移民。美國曾計劃沿著美墨邊境建造一道長達一千多公里的混凝土牆和一道由一千八百座瞭望塔組成的「虛擬」邊境牆，但這些計劃最近已被取消。當然，人們總會找到繞過這些限制的方法──儘管這些方法都十分危險。

Over six million Mexican women and men work in the US without papers and are consequently illegal. A concrete wall of over one thousand kilometers and a “virtual” wall of eighteen hundred watchtowers were planned along the frontier between the US and Mexico, although the projects have recently been scrapped. Ways around them—though all of them dangerous—will of course be found.

初一，查Mexico–United States barrier - Wikipedia