He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation." -Peter Fuller, Arts Review
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"Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics. It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace." -Geoff Dyer
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"The influence of the series and the book. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 'One of the most influential intellectuals of our time' It opened up for general attention areas of cultural study that are now commonplace' 'The influence of the series and the book. he is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation' 'Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of professional art critics. If you enjoyed Ways of Seeing, you might like Susan Sontag's On Photography, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. (1972) won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize. 1926) is an art critic, painter and novelist.born in Hackney, London. he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures.' By now he has. 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. John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.' It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. 'But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.' Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.
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