Author
John Berger
We've read and reviewed John Berger's art and essays book Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series (Penguin Books for Art) on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series (Penguin Books for Art)
by John Berger
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a slim, incendiary book that changed how a generation looks at images. In seven short essays — some entirely visual — it argues that how we see art is shaped by power, property, and gender long before we notice we're looking.