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008			090406s1972 enka 000 0 eng
010			_a73154288
020			_a9780140135152
050	0	0	_aN7430.5 _b.W39
082	0	0	_a701.8 WAY
245	0	0	_aWays of seeing; _c/ a book made by John Berger [and others]
260			_aLondon, _b: British Broadcasting Corporation; _aHarmondsworth, _b: Penguin _c, 1972.
300			_a165 p. _b: illus. _c; 20 cm.
500			_a"Based on the BBC television series with John Berger."
520			_a"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 the most 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. "Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" -Peter Fuller, Arts Review "The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" -Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling
650		0	_aVisual perception
650		4	_aArt _x-Techniques
700	1		_aBerger, John _d(1926-2017)
942			_cMO
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