"Ways of Seeing": Based on the BBC Television Series: Based on the BBC Television Series (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for "Ways of Seeing": Based on the BBC Television Series Based on a BBC television series, this is a book on art in any language, concentrating on how we look at paintings.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Published: 01 January 1995
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
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- Categories: Art Theory | Art History | Styles: Conceptual Art | Paintings
- ISBN 13: 9780140135152 ISBN 10: 0140135154
- Sales rank: 22,770
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Full description for "Ways of Seeing": Based on the BBC Television Series
"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.
