Ways Of Seeing Based On The Bbc Television Series [Paperback]

John Berger’s seminal text on how to look at art

John Berger'sWays of Seeingis 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 Timescritic commented: This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating onhowwe look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures. By now he has.

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

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

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

Over the past sixty years, the great John Berger — art critic, essayist, screenwriter, novelist, poet, and artist — has made immeasurable contributions to our understanding of culture and politics, never more potently than inWays of Seeing. -The Village Voice
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 bl©