Bento's Sketchbook
By JulianThe seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinozaalso known as Benedict or Bento de Spinozaspent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notesbut no drawings. For years, without knowing what its pages might hold, John Berger has imagined finding Bentos sketchbook, wanting to see the drawings alongside his surviving words. When one day a friend gave him a beautiful virgin sketchbook, Berger said, This is Bentos! and he began to draw, taking his inspiration from the philosophers vision. In this illustrated color book John Berger
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The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinozaalso known as Benedict or Bento de Spinozaspent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notesbut no drawings. For years, without knowing what its pages might hold, John Berger has imagined finding Bentos sketchbook, wanting to see the drawings alongside his surviving words. When one day a friend gave him a beautiful virgin sketchbook, Berger said, This is Bentos! and he began to draw, taking his inspiration from the philosophers vision. In this illustrated color book John Berger uses the imaginative space he creates to explore the process of drawing, politics, storytelling and Spinozas life and times.