John Berger and Me

Nikos Papastergiadis

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Giramondo Publishing
01 August 2024

Memoirs; Biography - Australian

The memoir of a deep friendship between two important intellectual figures bound by their interest in art and their experience of migration.

In John Berger and Me, the eminent Australian sociologist Nikos Papastergiadis recalls his relationship with the late English writer and art critic John Berger. His memoir is both a portrait of their friendship, and an account of the work of his former mentor, one which combines Berger's abiding interest in migrants and migration, with Papastergiadis' reflections on his own family's experience of migration. Berger was a successful author and artist who lived in England before he moved to a peasant village in the Haute-Savoie. Papastergiadias' father was born in a peasant village in Greece and migrated to work in factories in Australia. The memoir covers a period of ten years in the 1990s when the younger Nikos spent many summer months with the distinguished author, living in the family house and sharing duties such as the gathering of the harvest. It draws on personal memories, his deep knowledge of Berger's work, which was the subject of his doctoral thesis, and anecdotes of life in the village, and beyond. The intertwining of their common experiences means that the book is both a biography and an autobiography, as well as a tribute to one of the most significant cultural thinkers of recent times.

By: Nikos Papastergiadis
Imprint: Giramondo Publishing
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9781923106123
ISBN 10: 1923106120
Publication Date: 01 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Nikos Papastergiadis studied at the University of Melbourne and University of Cambridge. He was previously a lecturer and the Simon Fellow at the University of Manchester. His current research focuses on the investigation of the historical transformation of contemporary art and cultural institutions by digital technology. He is the director of the Research Unit in Public Culture at the University of Melbourne, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, Visiting Profesor in the Art, Design and Media School at NTU Singapore, and co-chair of the Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture.