Ways of Seeing (1972)
John Berger's Ways of Seeing changed the way people think about painting and art criticism. This watershed work shows, through word and image, how what we see is always influenced by a whole host of assumptions concerning the nature of beauty, truth, civilization, form, taste, class and gender. Exploring the layers of meaning within oil paintings, photographs and graphic art, Berger argues that when we see, we are not just looking - we are reading the language of images.
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1. Psychological Aspects1972-01-08 · 29mThe first part of the television series drew on ideas from Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction arguing that through reproduction an Old Master's
- 2 2. Women in Art1972-01-15 · 29mThe second film discusses the female nude. Berger asserts that only twenty or thirty nudes in the European oil painting tradition depict a woman as herself rather than as a subject
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3. Collectors and Collecting1972-01-22 · 29mThe third programme is on the use of oil paint as a means of depicting or reflecting the status of the individuals who commissioned the work of art.
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4. Commercial Art1972-01-29 · 29mIn the fourth programme, on publicity and advertising, Berger argues that colour photography has taken over the role of oil paint, though the context is reversed. An idealised pote
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