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John Berger

Ways of Seeing

a 1972 BBC four-part television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger. Berger’s scripts were adapted into a book of the same name. The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation series, …

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John Berger

John Peter Berger (born 5 November 1926) is an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and he has written a famous essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing. Watch a sample of the original television program the essay was based on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk
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