![]() ![]() Chapter 3 Women in art and their role as subjects in artwork.Chapter 1 Seeing art, the importance of social and historical context when looking at art, the mystification of art. ![]() Ways of Seeing covers four key ideas spread over four essays, there are also three picture essays with no words which provide a kind of space for the essays and provoke themselves themes based on Berger’s arguments in his other essays. Split into seven Chapters or Essays four of which have writing and three which are purely images. The book had a few contributors besides Berger, Stephen Dibb, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, and Richard Hollis. The TV series was four 30 minute long episodes meant as a response to Specifically Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation and more generally to traditional forms of Art criticism. Ways of Seeing by John Berger is the book adaptation of the BBC television series made in 1972. Below is a summary and set of book notes with short review. I think anyone interested in Architecture or Design or even mass media should read this book. It’s key arguments seem ever more urgent in the image hunger age of the internet. Although it deals mostly with painting and photography some of the cultural criticism is I believe relevant to Architecture. It challenged conventional art criticism in a startlingly bold way and changed art criticism forever. Adapted in 1972 from a TV series this book revolutionised visual criticism and remains in print today some fifty years after it was written. ![]()
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