In the introduction to this early collection Permanent Red, one of the first pieces in this compendious, and I use the following adjective very rarely,essential gathering, John Berger writes, apropos looking at works of art: What we take away with us on the most profound level. is the memory of the artist’s way of looking at the world. The truth of this is confirmed by the fact that we can often recall the experience of a work, having forgotten both its precise subject and its precise formal arrangement.” These essays by John Berger had their origins in articles written for publication in periodicals