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John Berger, pioneering art critic and author, dies at 90

John Berger, pioneering art critic and author, dies at 90

NEW YORK — John Berger, the British art critic, intellectual and prodigious author whose pioneering 1972 book and the BBC series it spawned, "Ways of Seeing," redefined the way a generation saw art, died Monday. He was 90.

Simon McBurney, the British actor and a friend of Berger's, told The Associated Press that Berger died at his home in the Paris suburb of Antony.

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