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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... pleasure - should be lived , or , at least , should be seen to be lived . Yet why are these pictures so vacuous and so perfunctory in their evocation of the scenes they are meant to recreate ? They did not need to stimulate the ...
... pleasure - should be lived , or , at least , should be seen to be lived . Yet why are these pictures so vacuous and so perfunctory in their evocation of the scenes they are meant to recreate ? They did not need to stimulate the ...
Page 108
... pleasures their portrait gave to Mr and Mrs Andrews , was the pleasure of seeing themselves depicted as landowners and this pleasure was enhanced by the ability of oil paint to render their land in all its substantiality . And this is ...
... pleasures their portrait gave to Mr and Mrs Andrews , was the pleasure of seeing themselves depicted as landowners and this pleasure was enhanced by the ability of oil paint to render their land in all its substantiality . And this is ...
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... pleasure . But it cannot offer the real object of pleasure and there is no convincing substitute for a pleasure in that pleasure's own terms . The more convincingly publicity conveys the pleasure of bathing in a warm , distant sea , the ...
... pleasure . But it cannot offer the real object of pleasure and there is no convincing substitute for a pleasure in that pleasure's own terms . The more convincingly publicity conveys the pleasure of bathing in a warm , distant sea , the ...
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