Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible (Penguin Great Ideas)

'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'

In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual.Few writers give a more vivid and moving sense of how we make art and how art makes us.

One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.