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 …
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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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- LibraryThing key:
- 41311
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Η εικόνα και το βλέμμα
21x14, 216 pages
Greek language
Published April 30, 2011 by Μεταίχμιο.
- ISBN:
- 978-618-03-3038-0Copied ISBN!
Ways of Seeing
176 pages
English language
Published 1990
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-013515-2Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 2784
Ways of Seeing
176 pages
English language
Published Oct. 28, 2008
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-103579-6Copied ISBN!
Maneres de mirar
166 pages
Catalan language
Published 2011 by Edicions de 1984.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-92440-72-6Copied ISBN!
Ways of seeing
166 pages
English language
Published Jan. 18, 1986 by British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books.
- OCLC Number:
- 17018104
Ways of Seeing
Paperback, 176 pages
English language
Published Dec. 1, 1990 by Penguin (Non-Classics).
Ways of seeing
165 pages
English language
Published Jan. 18, 1972 by Penguin Books, British Broadcasting Corporation.
Ways of Seeing
Paperback, 176 pages
English language
Published Aug. 25, 1977 by Penguin (Non-Classics).
Ways of seeing
165 pages
English language
Published Jan. 18, 1981 by British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books.
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