Art and Revolution

In this prescient and beautifully written book, John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscurity to realize his monumental and very public vision of art. This is a celebration of an art based on a heroic conception of the human will, an art that endeavors above all to be answerable to the world.