Ways Of Seeing - John Berger
In Ways of Seeing, John Berger provides incisive analysis of the act of seeing, using several works of art and photographs to illustrate his points. John Berger takes a general approach of Marxism and New Art History relating to social history. He focuses less on the aesthetic properties of art, and more on the New Art History approach; on the social and political construction of artworks, mainly oil paintings concerning class, race, gender, and ethnicity.
In Ways of Seeing, John Berger provides incisive analysis of the act of seeing, using several works of art and photographs to illustrate his points. John Berger takes a general approach of Marxism and New Art History relating to social history. He focuses less on the aesthetic properties of art, and more on the New Art History approach; on the social and political construction of artworks, mainly oil paintings concerning class, race, gender, and ethnicity.
In Ways of Seeing, John Berger provides incisive analysis of the act of seeing, using several works of art and photographs to illustrate his points. John Berger takes a general approach of Marxism and New Art History relating to social history. He focuses less on the aesthetic properties of art, and more on the New Art History approach; on the social and political construction of artworks, mainly oil paintings concerning class, race, gender, and ethnicity.