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Before he was a critic and novelist, John Berger began his career as a painter. Throughout the s, he exhibited works in galleries across London. Along with painting, he formed associations with the Communist Party of Great Britain early in his career: although he never formally joined the party, he was closely tied to the broader communist movement, and his Marxist values would underlie his artistic work for the rest of his career.

His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was released in , but it was immediately taken out of publication due to pressure from the Congress of Cultural Freedom, a CIA-funded liberal anti-communist organization.

Berger soon became fed up with life in the U.K.

and moved to France in , where continued writing. A decade later, he filmed Ways of Seeingfor the BBC, publishing a book of the same name as a companion to the miniseries. Most of the other books he published throughout this t