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Seeing comes first: art, perception, and the world around us.
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Summary
Based on the BBC television series, John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art.
“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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141035796 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014103579X |
| Author: | John Berger |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 4 January 2009 |
| Weight: | 126g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 110mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
John Berger
John Peter Berger (born November 5th, 1926) is an art critic, painter and novelist.
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