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Ways of Seeing

Ways of Seeing

Ways of Seeing

1972 1 Seasons 4 Episodes ⭐ 7.5 Documentary

John Berger's Ways of Seeing changed the way people think about painting and art criticism. This watershed work shows, through word and image, how what we see is always influenced by a whole host of assumptions concerning the nature of beauty, truth, civilization, form, taste, class and gender. Exploring the layers of meaning within oil paintings, photographs and graphic art, Berger argues that when we see, we are not just looking - we are reading the language of images.

John Berger's Ways of Seeing changed the way people think about painting and art criticism. This watershed work shows, through word and image, how what we see is always influenced by a whole host of assumptions concerning the nature of beauty, truth, civilization, form, taste, class and gender. Exploring the layers of meaning within oil paintings, photographs and graphic art, Berger argues that when we see, we are not just looking - we are reading the language of images.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Psychological Aspects

The first part of the television series drew on ideas from Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Re

EP 2

Women in Art

The second film discusses the female nude. Berger asserts that only twenty or thirty nudes in the European oil painting

EP 3

Collectors and Collecting

The third programme is on the use of oil paint as a means of depicting or reflecting the status of the individuals who c

EP 4

Commercial Art

In the fourth programme, on publicity and advertising, Berger argues that colour photography has taken over the role of

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John Berger

John Berger

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