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Ways of Seeing

Name: Ways of Seeing
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1972-01-08
Rating: 7.5
Cast: John Berger

Documentary

★ 7.5/10 TMDB Premiered 1972-01-08 1 season 4 eps

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.

Last Episode Aired 1972-01-29

S1E4 — Commercial Art

In the fourth programme, on publicity and advertising, Berger argues that colour photography has taken over the role of oil paint, though the context is reversed. An idealised potential for the viewer (via consumption) is considered a substitution for the actual reality depicted in old master portraits.

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