Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled” -- so opens John Berger’s revolutionary million-copy bestseller on how to look at art John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has. |
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... substantiality . And this is an observation which needs to be made , precisely because the cultural history we are normally taught pretends that it is an unworthy one . Our survey of the European oil painting has been very 108.
... substantiality . And this is an observation which needs to be made , precisely because the cultural history we are normally taught pretends that it is an unworthy one . Our survey of the European oil painting has been very 108.
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Based on the BBC Television Series John Berger. Our survey of the European oil painting has been very brief and therefore very crude . It really amounts to - no more than a project for study – to be undertaken perhaps by others . But the ...
Based on the BBC Television Series John Berger. Our survey of the European oil painting has been very brief and therefore very crude . It really amounts to - no more than a project for study – to be undertaken perhaps by others . But the ...
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... oil paintings often hang in shop windows as part of their display . Any work ... painting belongs to the cultural heritage ; it is a reminder of what it means to be a cultivated European ... oil painting more thoroughly than most art historians ...
... oil paintings often hang in shop windows as part of their display . Any work ... painting belongs to the cultural heritage ; it is a reminder of what it means to be a cultivated European ... oil painting more thoroughly than most art historians ...
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