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Smoke

Smoke

Berger, John
Demirel, Selçuk

Hardcover

HumorLetters & EssaysArt & Popular Culture

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1910749478
ISBN13: 9781910749470
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Published: May 8 2018
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.70 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Selçuk Demirel.

Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked.

This charming illustrated work reflects on the cultural implications of smoking, and suggests, through a series of brilliantly inventive illustrations, that society's attitude to smoke is both paradoxical and intolerant. It portrays a world in which smokers, banished from public places, must encounter one another as outlaws. Meanwhile, car exhausts and factory chimneys continue to pollute the atmosphere. Smoke is a beautifully illustrated prose poem that lingers in the mind.

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue. - John Berger (in interview)

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