This is the book I recommend when people tell me they don't know much about art and want to learn about it. I like this better than general art and art history books because those tend to be bogged down with dry facts and too many historical details, whereas Ways of Seeing is very short, easy to und...
An excellent review of ideas about art history in real-world (read: political and social) context. Berger synthesizes ideas from Walter Benjamin, Levi-Strauss, and other thinkers succinctly and to great effect. He powers through the obfuscatory bullshit of art historians to get to meaty ideas about ...
An interesting look at how we see things and how we are presented with ideas and images. Borrowed because my brother is doing a course and asked me to get it for him, it's quite a quick read but made me think about how things are presented.
I read this book for a college course and made the mistake of giving the slender volume to a friend whom I thought woudl enjoy it. I really need to acquire another one! Berger writes eloquently about the relationship between art and the presumed observer/audience. This book gave me the tools to ...
By and large, I'm not a fan of manifestos. This one was no exception. It had a lot of insight, as manifestos often do, and I learned a lot from it, which is also not atypical. But to my mind, there's something insulting about a manifesto. To borrow a metaphor from Eudora Welty, writing like this is ...
John Berger has a sparse, uncomplicated, writing style, and the matter-of-fact way he discloses unexpected details can be devastating. For example, on the second page you are jolted with this:"A month ago a gang of kids poured petrol over an old manwho was sleeping in a street behind the Central Sta...
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