Ways of seeing - BokDraken

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Publicerades 18 januari 1986 av British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books.

OCLC-nummer:: 17018104

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."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 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 …

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."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 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.

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rra@bookwyrm.social recenserade Ways of seeing av John Berger

You probably already know it but you'll want to read it nontheless.

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A central art-school reference that I actually never read during art school. Too busy making stuff, I guess.

Finally reading it more than a decade after I got it assigned, I find it striking how the ideas it has about images are so normalized that they do not even seem remarkable but rather cliché. It goes to show how early 2010s West-European art institutions live and breathe Berger et al.'s (as well as Beaudrillard, Mulvey, de Beauvoir's) perspectives on classic painting and visual culture.

The visual essays are particularly interesting, but the penguin pocket version butchers their lay-out.

Thanks to @vanderZwan@vis.social for borrowing it to me!

A central art-school reference that I actually never read during art school. Too busy making stuff, I guess.

Finally reading it more than a decade after I got it assigned, I find it striking how the ideas it has about images are so normalized that they do not even seem remarkable but rather cliché. It goes to show how early 2010s West-European art institutions live and breathe Berger et al.'s (as well as Beaudrillard, Mulvey, de Beauvoir's) perspectives on classic painting and visual culture.

The visual essays are particularly interesting, but the penguin pocket version butchers their lay-out.

Thanks to @vanderZwan@vis.social for borrowing it to me!

Ämnen

Visual perception
Art appreciation