About this title: WAYS OF SEEING (1972), one of John Berger's best known works, began as a series of BBC programs. Both TV shows and book attempt to popularize some of Berger's very anti-establishment ideas about art, particularly his proto-feminist way of looking at the nude, his appreciation of photography and other mechanically reproduced art, and his recognition of the ambiguities involved in art used as propaganda. WAYS OF SEEING has been hugely influential--and also controversial because of Berger's leftist orientation--and has often been used as a standard art-school textbook.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1977-08-25
ISBN-13:9780140216318ISBN:0140216316
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Edition: Reprint, 1988
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books; British Broadcasting Corporation, New York
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780140216318ISBN:0140216316
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 166 pp., illus.; 20 cm. Good+. Previous owner's name/half-title page, pencil underlining. Another copy available. Superb Marxist/feminist approach to art history, Cultural Studies at its best. Recent printing. Another copy available. "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 ... read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: BBC & Penguin Books, Great Britain
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780140216318ISBN:0140216316
Description: Good. * Good Octavo(8vo), approx.8" Trade sized paperback, in a good condition overall. Solid, tight copy with some creasing and wear to covers & spine, light general edgewear and a hint of foxing on endpapers. Illustrated with black & white photographs. We promptly respond to requests for more detailed description, scanned images, synopsis, on hand information. read more
Edition: Reprint, 1988
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books; British Broadcasting Corporation, New York
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780140216318ISBN:0140216316
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 166 pp., illus.; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Superb Marxist/feminist approach to art history, Cultural Studies at its best. Recent printing. Another copy available. "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 ... read more
Description: Good. Used paperback in good condition, pages and cover clean, no creases to spine. Based on the BBC television series. This book consists of seven numbered essays. Four of the essays use words and images, three of them use only images. These purely pictorial essays are intended to raise as many questions as the verbal essays. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin, UK
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780140216318ISBN:0140216316
Description: By Photographs. Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A 'PelicanOriginal ' PB, pictorial card covers, VG/--, 165pp, b/w illus. Moderate rubbing to covers, inside has light tanning/foxing to page edges, else square, clean and tight without markings. Seven essays on art in the marxist/feminist idiom. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
"Well worth reading. I will be armed with a new visual lexicon the next time I visit the West Wing of the National Gallery of Art. This book also made me feel like a complete sop for the visual capitalist culture and its offspring that surround me, making me feel impotent and ineffectual, but also equipping me with the consciousness to fight against this state of affairs. But, will I do this? Or just meditate inconsequentially on the effort it would require to do so?
Though more than 30 years old, it is still relevant. Also, reading it at a bar brought ridicule upon me."
"John Berger brings up historical thought that shows the reader that when you think you actually know different view points from history, he proves you ignorant. It's a very enjoyable book for anyone that wants to look into different ways of percieving atitudes. Art really shows the strands of thought of an era and how our inner psyche sees the world. The famous works of art through history has gave an exlamation point for those specific points in history as the established ways of viewing our world. "Ways of seeing" is a great book to read if you like to see things in a different light."
"These essays gave me some meaty subjects to think about, mostly about the nature of art and how we see it. It was interesting watching the author tear traditional art historians' approaches to shreds. There were some good observations about how art is perceived and how images embody the views of the creator and of the viewer. I knocked my review down a few stars, though, because I just felt like the writer was loading me down with all his personal views without much substantive backup."
"This book though initially written in 1972 is still relevant to the reader today especially the essays dealing with the way women are seen in society. It is composed of seven essys, four use words and images, three only images. It discusses how women are view in society with an emphasis and concentration on European or Western culture. The images are from ads and famous European paintings. Being that I work in a museum and see paintings all day long this aspect interests me in particular.
Basically the book is saying that in our European based culture women are objects, men are subjects. Men survey, women are surveyed. Since women are always on display in our society, they adjust their behaviour in order to please and fit in with our male dominated society.
I reference this book many times in my own personal writings. What Mr. Berger has written still has value today. Actually in many ways not much has changed for women. We in the USA and Western Europe are a little better off because we can work, make money and have legal rights but that is not true for women in the rest of the world. Living in a Democratic or secular society does give women more control over their lives as opposed to dictatorships and theocracies. However even in the United States our actions as women and men are based on social constructs and society's defintions of how men and women should behave towards each other. Even how women view and interact with each other to the point that women are very competitive, jealous and vindictive in order to get or keep a man. But that is another story for discussion in the essays I have written."
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