Ways of Seeing

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The series ran 1 season across 4 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.

Synopsis

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.

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• John BergerWriter
• Mike DibbDirector

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• John BergerSelf

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