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Ways of seeing / John Berger.

By: Berger, John [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Penguin Books ; 1972Copyright date: ©1972Description: 176 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0140135154 (paperback); 0563122447 (paperback).Uniform titles: Ways of seeing (Television program) Subject(s): Visual perception | Art -- Technique | Art and Design | Theory of art | Painting & paintingsDDC classification: 701 | 759.94 BER
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled" -- so opens John Berger's revolutionary million-copy bestseller on how to look at art

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 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.

"Based on the television series with John Berger."

CIT Module ARTS 6011 - Core reading.

CIT Module EDUC 9001 - Core reading.

CIT Module ARTS 6019 - Core reading.

CIT Module ARTS 7015 - Supplementary reading.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

John Peter Berger was born in London, England on November 5, 1926. After serving in the British Army from 1944 to 1946, he enrolled in the Chelsea School of Art. He began his career as a painter and exhibited work at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s. He then worked as an art critic for The New Statesman for a decade.

He wrote fiction and nonfiction including several volumes of art criticism. His novels include A Painter of Our Time, From A to X, and G., which won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize in 1972. His other works include an essay collection entitled Permanent Red, Into Their Labors, and a book and television series entitled Ways of Seeing.

In the 1970s, he collaborated with the director Alain Tanner on three films. He wrote or co-wrote La Salamandre, The Middle of the World, and Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000. He died on January 1, 2017 at the age of 90.

(Bowker Author Biography)