Ways Of Seeing

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780141917986

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Ways of Seeing Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Author : Emmanouil Kalkanis
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429939860

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John Berger's Ways of Seeing Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between seeing and knowing, discussing how our assumptions affect how we see a painting. He moves on to consider the role of women in artwork, particularly regarding the female nude. The third essay deals with oil painting looking at the relationship between subjects and ownership. Finally, Berger addresses the idea of ownership in a consumerist society, discussing the power of imagery in advertising, with particular regards to photography.

Author : Peter Fuller
Publisher : Writers & Readers Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UOM:39015006356599

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Seeing Berger Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"In this incisive counter-polemic Peter Fuller underlines what is most valuable in Berger's criticism, while attacking the art ideologists who would negate the existence of any aesthetic experience. He succinctly agues the case for a materialistic understanding of art and its value which moves beyond ideology and permits one to confront the 'masterpiece', the work of art which breaks free from the norms of tradition and transcends its time."--back cover.

Author : Yi Gu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781684176137

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Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"How did modern Chinese painters see landscape? Did they depict nature in the same way as premodern Chinese painters? What does the artistic perception of modern Chinese painters reveal about the relationship between artists and the nation-state? Could an understanding of modern Chinese landscape painting tell us something previously unknown about art, political change, and the epistemological and sensory regime of twentieth-century China?Yi Gu tackles these questions by focusing on the rise of open-air painting in modern China. Chinese artists almost never painted outdoors until the late 1910s, when the New Culture Movement prompted them to embrace direct observation, linear perspective, and a conception of vision based on Cartesian optics. The new landscape practice brought with it unprecedented emphasis on perception and redefined artistic expertise. Central to the pursuit of open-air painting from the late 1910s right through to the early 1960s was a reinvigorated and ever-growing urgency to see suitably as a Chinese and to see the Chinese homeland correctly. Examining this long-overlooked ocular turn, Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of visual modernity there."

Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015011893354

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Ways of Telling Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781408872154

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About Looking Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

As a novelist, essayist, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us of a relationship between man and beast all but lost in the twentieth century? What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles their already potent violence? How do the nudes of Rodin betray the threats to his authority and potency posed by clay and flesh? And how does solitude inform the art of Giacometti? In asking these and other questions, Berger alters the vision of anyone who reads his work.

Author : David Salle
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780393248142

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How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

“If John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is a classic of art criticism, looking at the ‘what’ of art, then David Salle’s How to See is the artist’s reply, a brilliant series of reflections on how artists think when they make their work. The ‘how’ of art has perhaps never been better explored.” —Salman Rushdie How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle’s incisive essay collection illuminates these questions by exploring the work of influential twentieth-century artists. Engaging with a wide range of Salle’s friends and contemporaries—from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz, among others—How to See explores not only the multilayered personalities of the artists themselves but also the distinctive character of their oeuvres. Salle writes with humor and verve, replacing the jargon of art theory with precise and evocative descriptions that help the reader develop a personal and intuitive engagement with art. The result: a master class on how to see with an artist’s eye.

Author : Grant Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000213324

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New Ways of Seeing Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Those born since the digital revolution, seem to have the hardest time re-imagining the role of photography in the world today. Thinking of photography as a visual language is the approach this book adopts to addresses this challenge.Considering photography in this way develops the metaphor of 'learning a language' when attempting to explain what photography can be, and what it can give a student in transferable creative and life skills. This begins with challenging the pre-conception that successful photography is defined by the successful single image or 'the good photograph'.The book emphasises the central role of narrative and visual storytelling through a technique of 'photosketching' to develop the building blocks of visual creativity and ultimately to craft successful bodies of photographic work.New Ways of Seeing explains how to both learn and teach photography as a visual language, appropriate for both professionals and students working today.

Author : Nick Gleeson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781925183825

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The Many Ways of Seeing Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

In desperation, I look up into mum’s face. A small face – a loving face — And the lights go out. Her face is the last image I will ever see in my lifetime. Blind since the age of seven, Nick Gleeson has spent his life learning to ‘see’ without seeing. Growing up in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows, Nick’s young life was defined by touch and smell: learning the shape of each shoe so he knew left from right. Holding the huge, rough hand of his father. Smelling the well-worn vinyl in the family car. Gently feeling the smooth top and soft underbelly of a mushroom he has picked. When Nick meets Peter Bishop, Creative Director of Varuna, the Writers’ House many years later, he has led an amazing life of physical adventuring. He’s scaled basecamp at Everest and the top of Kilimanjaro; he’s been a Paralympic athlete, a marathon runner, a skydiver. And, most recently, he’s been on an expedition to the Simpson Desert. In a unique blend of memoir, conversation and insights into the writing process, together Peter and Nick have collaborated to share Nick’s compelling life journey with its many challenges, loves and losses. The Many Ways of Seeing is an inspiring true story about determination in the face of hardship, the importance of trust and friendship and the wonderful relationship between a mentor and writer.

Author : Felicity McArdle,Gail Boldt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136215803

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Young Children, Pedagogy and the Arts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Young Children, Pedagogy and the Arts is an innovative text that describes practices and research that cross all five strands of the arts—visual, drama, music, dance, and media—and illuminates ways of understanding children and their arts practices that go beyond the common traditions. The book: - Offers practical and rich illustrations of teachers’ and children’s work based on international research that integrates theory with practice; - Brings a critical lens to arts education; - Includes summaries, reflective questions, and recommended further readings with every chapter. Young Children, Pedagogy and the Arts provides a more nuanced understanding of the arts through an exploration of specific instances in which committed teachers and researchers are discovering what contemporary multimodal tools offer to young children. Chapters contain examples of ‘doing’ the arts in the early years, new ways of teaching, and how to use emerging technologies to develop multiliteracies, equity, agency, social and cultural capital, and enhance the learning and engagement of marginalized children.

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Verso Trade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Artists
ISBN : 1844676390

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A Painter of Our Time Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Exiled in London, the Hungarian artist Janos Lavin disappears one day, into thin air. His journal offers his friend John the only clues to where he has gone and why.

Author : Carmen Robertson,Sherry Farrell Racette
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 0889772266

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Clearing a Path Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This catalogue includes introductory essays by the curators of the art exhibition Clearing a Path, along with photographs of the exhibitions pieces and artist statements from 21 participating artists.

Author : David Inglis,John Hughson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137044945

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The Sociology of Art Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

What can Sociology add to our understanding of art? This volume brings together a range of respected scholars in the field who demonstrate the many ways in which sociology can add to our understanding of artistic issues. Covering all the major schools of thought, and dealing with many different art forms, the book offers the reader a comprehensive and accessible guide to an often complex area. It will be an invaluable resource for students seeking to understand sociology's contributions to the study of artistic and aesthetic issues.

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0140135154

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Ways of Seeing Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled” -- so opens John Berger’s revolutionary million-copy bestseller on how to look at art John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the 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.

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241292341

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Confabulations Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and political discourse today. Also containing Berger's own drawings, notes, memories and reflections on everything from Albert Camus to global capitalism, Confabulations takes us to what is 'true, essential and urgent'.