Ways of Seeing

Name: Ways of Seeing
ISBN: 9780140135152

John Berger

1972·176 pages·Nonfiction

History & Politics Literary Fiction

classics essays

“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.”
— (London) Sunday Times

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.

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Ways of Seeing

John Berger

Year

1972

Pages

176

Type

Nonfiction

History & Politics Literary Fiction

Praise

“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.”
— (London) Sunday Times