A major new book from one of the world's leading writers and art critics One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger, takes us through centuries of art revealing his fascination with the artist. In Portraits, Berger connects the artist and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Cy Twombly's radical work. In his penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both canonized and obscure, from Rembrandt to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. A beautifully illustrated walk through many centuries of visual culture from one of the contemporary world's most incisive critical voices

• The Chauvet Cave painters
• The Fayum portrait painters
• Piero della Francesca
• Antonello da Messina
• Andrea Mantegna
• Hieronymous Bosch
• Pieter Bruegel the elder
• Giovanni Bellini
• Matthias Grunewald
• Albrecht Durer
• Michelangelo
• Titian
• Hans Holbein the younger
• Caravaggio
• Frans Hals
• Diego Velazquez
• Rembrandt
• Willem Drost
• Jean-Antoine Watteau
• Francisco de Honore Goya
• Honore Daumier
• J.M.W. Turner
• Jean-Louis-Andre-Theodore Gericault
• Jean-Francois Millet
• Gustave Courbet
• Edgar Degas
• Ferdinand "Le facteur" Cheval
• Paul Cezanne
• Claude Monet
• Vincent van Gogh
• Kathe Kollwitz
• Henri Matisse
• Pablo Picasso
• Fernand Leger
• Ossip Zadkine
• Henry Moore
• Peter Lazslo Peri
• Alberto Giacometti
• Mark Rothko
• Robert Medley
• Frida Kahlo
• Francis Bacon
• Renato Guttuso
• Jackson Pollock
• Pollock and Lee Krasner
• Abidin Dino
• Nicolas de Stael
• Prunella Clough
• Sven Blomberg
• Friso Ten Holt
• Peter de Francia
• Francis Newton Souza
• Yvonne Barlow
• Ernst Neizvestny
• Leon Kossoff
• Anthony Fry
• Cy Twombly
• Frank Auerbach
• Vija Celmins
• Michael Quanne
• Maggi Hambling
• Liane Birnberg
• Peter Kennard
• Andres Serrano
• Juan Munoz
• Rostia Kunovsky
• Jaume Plensa
• Cristina Iglesias
• Martin Noel
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Marisa Camino
• Christoph Hansli
• Michael Broughton
• Randa Mdah