Ways of Seeing
John Berger
John Berger's Ways of Seeing changed the way people
think about painting and art criticism. This watershed
work shows, through word and image, how what we see
is always influenced by a whole host of assumptions
concerning the nature of beauty, truth, civilization, form,
taste, class and gender. Exploring the layers of meaning
within oll paintings, photographs and graphic art, Berger
argues that when we see, we are not just looking ~ we.
reading the language of images.
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