An edition of About Looking (1980)

About looking

1st American ed.
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An edition of About Looking (1980)

About looking

1st American ed.
  • 3.00 ·
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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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Language
English
Pages
198

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Cover of: About Looking
About Looking
1993, Granta Bks.
in English - New ed.
Cover of: About looking
About looking
1991, Vintage International
in English - 1st Vintage International ed.
Cover of: Das Leben der Bilder oder die Kunst des Sehens
Das Leben der Bilder oder die Kunst des Sehens
1991-04, Verlag Klaus Wagenbach
Hardcover in German - 5.-7. Tausend
Cover of: About Looking
About Looking
November 15, 1988, Random House USA Inc
in English
Cover of: About looking
About looking
1980, Writers and Readers, 1980.
in English
Cover of: About looking.
About looking.
1980, Writers & Readers Pub. Co.
Cover of: About looking
About looking
1980, Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative Ltd
in English
Cover of: About looking
About looking
1980, Writers and Readers
in English
Cover of: About looking
About looking
1980, Pantheon Books, Pantheon / Random House
in English - 1st American ed.

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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."

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
701/.1/5
Library of Congress
N71 .B398 1980

The Physical Object

Pagination
198 p. :
Number of pages
198

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4402288M
Internet Archive
aboutlooking00berg
ISBN 10
0394511247, 0394739078
LCCN
79003615
OCLC/WorldCat
5799637
Goodreads
1300159
1300160

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."

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