John Berger, pioneering art critic and author, dies at 90
John Berger, pioneering art critic and author, dies at 90
A British art critic, Marxist intellectual and prodigious author whose pioneering 1972 book and the BBC series it spawned, "Ways of Seeing," ushered in a political perspective to art criticism has died. John Berger was 90.
Simon McBurney, the British actor and a friend of Berger's, told The Associated Press that Berger died Monday at his home in the Paris suburb of Antony. McBurney said Berger had been ill for about a year.