{"product_id":"ways-of-seeing-john-berger","title":"Ways of Seeing (John Berger)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the BBC television series, John Berger's \u003ci\u003eWays of Seeing \u003c\/i\u003eis a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the \u003ci\u003ePenguin on Design \u003c\/i\u003eseries in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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.' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Berger's \u003ci\u003eWays of Seeing\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Berger (b. 1926) is an art critic, painter and novelist.born in Hackney, London. \u003cbr\u003eHis novel \u003ci\u003eG. \u003c\/i\u003e(1972) won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eWays of Seeing\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Susan Sontag's\u003ci\u003e On Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of 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'\u003cbr\u003ePeter Fuller, \u003ci\u003eArts Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The influence of the series and the book ... was enormous ... It opened up for general attention areas of cultural study that are now commonplace'\u003cbr\u003eGeoff Dyer in \u003ci\u003eWays of Telling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most influential intellectuals of our time'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJohn Berger\u003c\/b\u003e was born in London in 1926. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include the seminal \u003ci\u003eWays of Seeing \u003c\/i\u003eand the novel \u003ci\u003eG.\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, to live in a small village in the French Alps.  He died in 2017.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 176 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63399474659677,"sku":"K020874668","price":10.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/219201-2087466800001A.jpg?v=1770900587","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/ways-of-seeing-john-berger","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}