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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... lives off public charity ; he examines them through the eyes of a pauper who must nevertheless try to be objective , i.e. , must try to surmount the way he sees as a pauper . This is the drama of these paintings . A drama of an ...
... lives off public charity ; he examines them through the eyes of a pauper who must nevertheless try to be objective , i.e. , must try to surmount the way he sees as a pauper . This is the drama of these paintings . A drama of an ...
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... lives , by buying something more . This more , it proposes , will make us in some even though we will be poorer by having spent our way richer money . — Publicity persuades us of such a transformation by showing us people who have ...
... lives , by buying something more . This more , it proposes , will make us in some even though we will be poorer by having spent our way richer money . — Publicity persuades us of such a transformation by showing us people who have ...
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... lives in the contradiction between what he is and what he would like to be . Either he then becomes fully conscious of the contradiction and its causes , and so joins the political struggle for a full democracy which entails , amongst ...
... lives in the contradiction between what he is and what he would like to be . Either he then becomes fully conscious of the contradiction and its causes , and so joins the political struggle for a full democracy which entails , amongst ...
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