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About looking
by John Berger
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This successor to John Berger's Ways of Seeing, written over the last ten years, searches for meaning within and beyond what is looked at. Why do zoos disappoint children? Why do we take snapshots of those we love? How do the media use photographs of agony? When an animal looks us in the eyes, what does that look mean? Berger describes how a sixteenth-century masterpiece he saw in the 1960s comes to look different to him a decade later. He discusses how a forest looks to a woodcutter; how fields look to a peasant; how the world looks to a nineteenth-century barber's son; how New York looked to immigrants; and how each of these perspectives was reflected in the struggles of a particular painter. Every painting he considers, whether by Millet, Courbet, Turner, Magritte, Fasanella, or Francis Bacon, is evidence of an experience which belongs as fully to life as to art. (back cover copy)
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1991, Vintage International
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0679736557 9780679736554
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First published in 1980
Subjects
Art, Visual perception, Psychology, Meaning (Psychology), Arts, Waarneming, Psychologie, Perception visuelle, Kunst, Signification (Psychologie), Social sciences, Social SciencesFirst Sentence
"The 19th century, in western Europe and North America, saw the beginning of a process, today being completed by 20th century corporate capitalism, by which every tradition which has previously mediated between man and nature was broken."
Work Description
This successor to John Berger's Ways of Seeing, written over the last ten years, searches for meaning within and beyond what is looked at. Why do zoos disappoint children? Why do we take snapshots of those we love? How do the media use photographs of agony? When an animal looks us in the eyes, what does that look mean? Berger describes how a sixteenth-century masterpiece he saw in the 1960s comes to look different to him a decade later. He discusses how a forest looks to a woodcutter; how fields look to a peasant; how the world looks to a nineteenth-century barber's son; how New York looked to immigrants; and how each of these perspectives was reflected in the struggles of a particular painter. Every painting he considers, whether by Millet, Courbet, Turner, Magritte, Fasanella, or Francis Bacon, is evidence of an experience which belongs as fully to life as to art. (back cover copy)
About looking
This edition was published in 1980 by Pantheon Books in New York.
First Sentence
"The 19th century, in western Europe and North America, saw the beginning of a process, today being completed by 20th century corporate capitalism, by which every tradition which has previously mediated between man and nature was broken."
Edition Description
This successor to John Berger's Ways of Seeing, written over the last ten years, searches for meaning within and beyond what is looked at. Why do zoos disappoint children? Why do we take snapshots of those we love? How do the media use photographs of agony? When an animal looks us in the eyes, what does that look mean? Berger describes how a sixteenth-century masterpiece he saw in the 1960s comes to look different to him a decade later. He discusses how a forest looks to a woodcutter; how fields look to a peasant; how the world looks to a nineteenth-century barber's son; how New York looked to immigrants; and how each of these perspectives was reflected in the struggles of a particular painter. Every painting he considers, whether by Millet, Courbet, Turner, Magritte, Fasanella, or Francis Bacon, is evidence of an experience which belongs as fully to life as to art. (back cover copy)
Table of Contents
| Why Look at Animals? | 1 | |
| Uses of Photography | ||
| The Suit and the Photograph | 27 | |
| Potographs of Agony | 37 | |
| Paul Strand | 41 | |
| Uses of Photography | 48 | |
| Moments Lived | ||
| The Primitive and the Professional | 64 | |
| Millet and the Peasant | 69 | |
| Seker Ahmet and the Forest | 79 | |
| Lowry and the Industrial North | 87 | |
| Ralph Fasanella and the City | 96 | |
| La Tour and Humanism | 103 | |
| Francis Bacon and Walt Disney | 111` | |
| Article of Faith | 119 | |
| Between Two Colmars | 127 | |
| Courbet and the Jura | 134 | |
| Turner and the Barber's Shop | 142 | |
| Rouault and the Suburbs of Paris | 149 | |
| Magritte and the Impossible | 155 | |
| Hals and Bankruptcy | 162 | |
| Giacometti | 171 | |
| Rodin and Sexual Domination | 177 | |
| Lomaine Lorquet | 185 | |
| Field | 192 |
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