Bento's Sketchbook

Synopsis

A deeply moving exploration of the relationship between thinking and drawing, from the author of the groundbreaking ways of seeingthe seventeenth-century philosopher baruch spinoza (a. K. A. Bento) spent 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, notes—but no drawings. For years, without knowing what its pages might hold, john berger has imagined finding bento’s sketchbook, wanting to see the drawings alongside his surviving words.