Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series (Penguin Books for Art)

Anne Bagasao said This Book Should Be Required Reading for All High School Students. This was the first reading I was assigned as a freshman art student at UCSD in 198"This Book Should Be Required Reading for All High School Students" according to Anne Bagasao. This was the first reading I was assigned as a freshman art student at UCSD in 1982. I have since lost my original copy and bought this one as a replacement. A refresher to remind me in a world defined by automation, conformity and narrow mindedness that we are, as humans, capable of seeing and doing so much more, still.This should be requi. . I have since lost my original copy and bought this one as a replacement. A refresher to remind me in a world defined by automation, conformity and narrow mindedness that we are, as humans, capable of seeing and doing so much more, still.This should be requi. Great Book; Horrible Reprint Great Book, but the copy i was sent was all in black and white. The first printing paperback had mostly color images. Its MUCH better with color images. gives you some background and understanding for decoding images to do with race/class/gender that are really transferable to man Rosie Wild Ordered after being reccommended several times. If you are art/film studies/media and communications/art history student this book is a must read, gives you some background and understanding for decoding images to do with race/class/gender that are really transferable to many disciplines and the kind of knowledge that is useful at every yea

"The influence of the series and the book was enormous It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace." —Geoff Dyer"Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics 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"Over the past sixty years, the great John Berger — art critic, essayist, screenwriter, novelist, poet, and artist — has made immeasurable contributions to our understanding of culture and politics, never more potently than in Ways of Seeing." -The Village Voice

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."The influence of the series and the book was enormous It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace." —Geoff Dyer"Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics 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. John Berger’s seminal text on how to look at artJohn Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language

Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. . His many books include Ways of Seeing; the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours; Here Is Where We Meet; the Booker Prize–winning novel G; Ho