'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.
