Ways Of Seeing By John Berger (Paperback, 2008)

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Based on the BBC television series John Berger&s Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics& Seeing comes before words The child looks & 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 & what we know is never settled& John Berger&s Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating & 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 John Berger (b 1926) is an art critic painter & novelistborn in Hackney London His novel G (1972) won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize & the Booker Prize If you enjoyed Ways of Seeing you might like Susan Sontag&s On Photography also available in Penguin Modern Classics& Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of professional art critics he is a liberator of images & 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 & the book was enormous It opened up for general attention areas of cultural study that are now commonplace& Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling& One of the most influential intellectuals of our time& Observer