Ways of Seeing

“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 “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.” –Peter Fuller, 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 Voice

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.