Ways of Seeing
by Berger, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- ISBN 10
- 0670752738
- ISBN 13
- 9780670752737
- Seller
-
Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
NY: The Viking Press , 1973. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, decorated paper boards with beige cloth spine. Spine stamped in black and blue. 160 pages, many b&w illustrations. A clean, bright copy lacking the dust jacket. 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 a 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 meaningful evaluation" —Peter Fuller, Arts Review. "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 in Ways of Telling. Record # 383429
Synopsis
Ways of Seeing was a 1972 BBC television series created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb, that led to a book of the same name. The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon.
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 383429
- Title
- Ways of Seeing
- Author
- Berger, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st US
- ISBN 10
- 0670752738
- ISBN 13
- 9780670752737
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- art, Criticism, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- art;
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