This essay, on the influence of John Berger on the new BBC series Civilisations, was the main part of my Observer column this week. (The column included also a shorter piece on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1968 Commonwealth Immigrants’ Act.) It was published in the Observer, 4 March 2018, under the headline ‘Can Civilisations make sense of art when we have different ways of seeing?‘ ‘Never again will a single story be told as though it were the only one.’ […]

Categories: Culture & Books • Tags: art, bbc, cave art, civilisation, culture, david olusoga, john berger, kenneth clark, mary beard, picasso, postmodernism, simon schama, ways of seeing