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How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."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 never settled."John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.
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Art, Art appreciation, Technique, Nonfiction, Visual perception, open_syllabus_project, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Psychology, Women in art, Art and society, Philosophy, ART / History, ART / Criticism & Theory, Beeldende kunsten, Visuele waarneming, Oeuvre d'art, Perception visuelle, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Image, Waarneming, Artes (ensaios), Mot, Publicité, Comunicação visual, Peinture, Représentation visuelle, Art, technique, GeneralShowing 3 featured editions. View all 16 editions?
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Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series
December 1, 1990, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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0140135154 9780140135152
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Ways of seeing: a book
1972, Penguin Books, British Broadcasting Corporation
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0140216316 9780140216318
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"Based on the BBC television series with the John Berger".
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"Galaxies, stars, planets and now spaceships rush about the universe, and we have a sense of time passing because the positions of objects change."
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