Did his/her daring plan pay off?

© Ilkhi, 2017

"There is only the endless permissiveness called freedom for the artist. To which Berger's uncomfortable answer is that the "absolute freedom" of the contemporary artist in bourgeois society is comparable to the theoretical freedom of the unemployed. A very bitter freedom indeed"

John Berger: "Success and failure of Picasso"
A review by Barbara Niven