John Berger is an English writer, painter and art critic. His novel G won the 1972 Booker prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing – written as an accompaniment to the BBC Documentary series of the same name – is still widely used as an essential academic reading. A staunch Marxist, Berger devoted enormous time and effort to studying labor migration in Europe and the decline of the European peasantry. Berger has also written a survey about Ernst Neizvestny entitled Art and Revolution: Endurance and the Role of the Artist