The British Art Critic and the Russian Sculptor: The Making of John Berger's

John Berger was one of the best-known leftist art critics in Great Britain in the 1950s. He traveled several times to the USSR and was one of the few Western authors who wrote on Russian sculpture and art in the Cold War. His book, Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR, published in 1969, is a remarkable example of the way in which Western intellectuals viewed Russian art and the situation of artists. ¹ Apart from this, the book has a fascinating genesis.