Ways of Seeing : Based on the BBC Television Series

by Berger, John

• ISBN13: 9780140135152
• ISBN10: 0140135154
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780140216318, 9780670752737
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-12-01
• Publisher: Penguin Books
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Summary

"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 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 (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.

Author Biography

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; Hold Everything Dear; the Man Booker–longlisted From A to X; and A Seventh Man.