Name: Bento's Sketchbook
ISBN: 9781781688199

John Berger

A meditation, in words and images, on the practice of drawing, by the author of Ways of Seeing.

Bento's Sketchbook

The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza ...or Bento de Spinoza carried with him a sketchbook. For years, John Berger has imagined finding Bento's sketchbook without knowing what its pages might hold...When one day a friend gave Berger a beautiful virgin sketchbook, John said "This is Bento's !"and he began to draw, taking his inspiration from the philosopher's vision.