Ways of Seeing(1972)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1972-01-08
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 7.5
Votes: 11
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 4
John Berger's Ways of Seeing changed the way people think about painting and art criticism. This watershed work shows, through word and image, how what we see is always influenced by a whole host of assumptions concerning the nature of beauty, truth, civilization, form, taste, class and gender. Exploring the layers of meaning within oil paintings, photographs and graphic art, Berger argues that when we see, we are not just looking - we are reading the language of images.
Keywords
artberger
Seasons & Episodes
Ways of Seeing
Episodes: 4E01
Psychological Aspects
Air Date: 1972-01-08
The first part of the television series drew on ideas from Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical...
E02
Women in Art
Air Date: 1972-01-15
The second film discusses the female nude. Berger asserts that only twenty or thirty nudes in the European oil painti...
E03
Collectors and Collecting
Air Date: 1972-01-22
The third programme is on the use of oil paint as a means of depicting or reflecting the status of the individuals wh...
E04
Commercial Art
Air Date: 1972-01-29
In the fourth programme, on publicity and advertising, Berger argues that colour photography has taken over the role ...
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