Ways of Seeing

• Utgivningsdatum: 1990-12-01
• Mått: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
• Vikt: 352 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 176
• Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• ISBN: 9780140135152

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John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels & stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, "A Painter of Our Time", was published in 1958, & since then his books have included the novel "G.", which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and he lives in a small village in the French Alps.

“Ways of Seeing . . . vigorously examined the social context of images and became an instant classic.” —The New York Times “It’s a book about art history and the media, but it’s also a magic trick.” —The New Republic “Berger fulfils the roles of a philosopher, listener, and somewhat of a magician as he makes tantalising worlds appear, and illusions vanish.” —Oxford Culture Review“Berger reveals a dreamworld that we all move through continuously, a visual bombardment designed to conjure deep feelings of inadequacy and desire, the long seduction by capitalism upon its hapless subjects.” —Olivia Laing“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“Perhaps the most bold, clear, and widely renowned explanation of art’s entanglement with capitalism.” —The Paris Review“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.” —Arts Review“Over the past sixty years, the great John Berger—art critic, essayist, screenwriter, novelist, poet, and artist—has made immeasurable contributions to our understanding of culture and politics, never more potently than in Ways of Seeing.” —The Village VoiceOn John Berger: “In contemporary English letters he seems to me peerless.” —Susan Sontag“One of the most tender, attentive, beautiful writers I have read.” —Arundhati Roy“No other writer has done so much for the verb ‘looking.’ ” —Amitava Kumar“When I feel hopeless and afraid, I turn to his writing.” —Madeleine Thien“We learned from him to see that basic assumptions about everything—work, play, art, commerce—are hidden in the surrounding culture of images.” —Jane Gaines“One of the most influential intellectuals of our time.” —The Observer

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