Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a
unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on
Design series in Penguin Modern Classics. '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 about which
the 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.
John Berger (b. 1926) is an art critic, painter and novelist.born in Hackney, London.
Ways of Seeing - John Berger
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