John Berger
Toward Reality: Essays in Seeing.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First US edition. Foreword by Harold Clurman. xxii/233/v pages.
Volume, measuring approximately , is bound in gray cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, and top edge of text block tinted red. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket, with price of $4 on front flap, displays moderate wear, with small closed tears and minor loss at top edge of jacket. Remnants of price sticker appear on front panel. 
"In this book Mr. Berger takes the reader into the artist's inner and outer worlds. We see what the artist's eyes sees; we learn how he serves not only his art but also his times. After defining the specific problems that face the modern artist, Mr. Berger analyzes the success or failure in solving them of such artists as Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock, Naum gbo and Henry Moore. This is followed by sections on the acknowledged masters of the twentieth century: Picasso, Matisse, Leger, Juan Gris, Lipchitz, and Zadkine; and on the artists of the past such as Watteau and Goya, who illuminate our modern predicament. The book ends with a chapter of definitions of such terms as Realism and Formalism."