‘“We do not live apart”: John Berger and the Radical Politics of Rural Life’
Berger’s essays on the 19th-century artists Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet and Ferdinand Cheval and his discussion of primitivism, class, labour, materiality and landscape are put in dialogue with important 21st-century ecocritical texts. Arguing for his significant contribution to 19th-centu...
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| description | Berger’s essays on the 19th-century artists Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet and Ferdinand Cheval and his discussion of primitivism, class, labour, materiality and landscape are put in dialogue with important 21st-century ecocritical texts. Arguing for his significant contribution to 19th-century social history, this essay also draws attention to his ecological emphasis on the always-interconnected nature of human and nonhuman animals and rural environments and to artistic political practices of making ecological relationships visible. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6b4542267a42430ba4d068111e806b4b2023-12-06T16:18:54ZengPresses Universitaires de la MéditerranéeÉtudes Britanniques Contemporaines1168-49172271-54442023-12-016510.4000/ebc.13904‘“We do not live apart”: John Berger and the Radical Politics of Rural Life’Maura CoughlinBerger’s essays on the 19th-century artists Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet and Ferdinand Cheval and his discussion of primitivism, class, labour, materiality and landscape are put in dialogue with important 21st-century ecocritical texts. Arguing for his significant contribution to 19th-century social history, this essay also draws attention to his ecological emphasis on the always-interconnected nature of human and nonhuman animals and rural environments and to artistic political practices of making ecological relationships visible.http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/13904John Bergermaterial ecocriticismmaterialityJean-François MilletGustave CourbetFerdinand Cheval |
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| title | ‘“We do not live apart”: John Berger and the Radical Politics of Rural Life’ |
| title_full | ‘“We do not live apart”: John Berger and the Radical Politics of Rural Life’ |
| title_fullStr | ‘“We do not live apart”: John Berger and the Radical Politics of Rural Life’ |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘“We do not live apart”: John Berger and the Radical Politics of Rural Life’ |
| title_short | ‘“We do not live apart”: John Berger and the Radical Politics of Rural Life’ |
| title_sort | we do not live apart john berger and the radical politics of rural life |
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