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Cataract: Some Notes After Having a Cataract Removed

Hardcover • 2012 • English

Cataract: Some Notes After Having a Cataract Removed

By John Berger

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About the book

"Behind my right eye hangs a burlap cloth; behind my left eye there's a mirror. . . Before the burlap the visible remains indifferent; before the mirror it begins to play." What happens when an art critic loses some of his sight to cataracts? What wonders are glimpsed once vision is restored? In this impressionistic essay written in the spirit of Montaigne, John Berger, whose treatises on seeing have shaped cultural and media studies for four decades, records the effects of cataract removal ope...Show more

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ISBN

9781619020634

Publisher

Counterpoint LLC

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Cataract: Some Notes After Having a Cataract Removed

Format

Hardcover

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