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John Berger during a rehearsal of “Lying Down to Sleep’” at the Prado Museum in Madrid in 2010.
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John Berger
Died on January 2, 2017 at age 90
A British essayist, novelist and screenwriter, Mr. Berger, in his book and TV series “Ways of Seeing,” declared war on traditional ways of thinking about art.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.