Ways of Seeing #pdf by John Berger

Penguin Books | ISBN:0140135154 | File Type: PDF, 166 pages | File size: 17.Mb | Dec. 1st, 1990
Art Criticism and Art Theory: Seeing comes before words The child looks and recognizes before it can speak But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words 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 The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled John Berger s Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimating 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 London 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 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 meaningf evaluation eter Fler Arts Review The influence of the series and the book was enormous It opened up for general attention to areas of ctural study that are now commonplace Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling