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- Berger, who died on 2 January at the age of 90, has had a profound influence on the popular understanding of art and the visual image. He was also a vibrant example of the public intellectual, using his position to speak out against social injustices and to lend his support to artists and activists across the world.
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Jan 5, 2017 · Berger’s approach to art came most directly into the public eye in four-part BBC TV series, Ways of Seeing in 1972, produced by Mike Dibb and which preceded the book.
Berger’s approach to art came most directly into the public eye in Ways of Seeing, a four-part BBC TV series produced by Mike Dibb which preceded his book of the same name.
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Apr 2, 2023 · John Berger looks at how the act of seeing or being seen affects the formation of art and the social relations that surround it.
Jan 3, 2022 · Half a century ago, a motorcycle-riding Marxist novelist and critic made us see 'boring old paintings of men in ruffs' with fresh eyes. 3 January 2022 • 5:00am. ‘He fixed the viewer with the ...
Jan 24, 2017 · The modern interrogation of centuries-old oil paintings was a milestone in cultural theory. It’s his writing in the depiction of women in art that is most enduring. Berger argues that the...
Berger argues that the systemic objectification of women in visual art has continued from the oil paintings of centuries past, into the films and advertisements of recent times. Berger sums up the inherent hypocrisy in images of women created for the patriarchal male gaze:
Jan 30, 2019 · As early as the mid-1950s, the art critic John Berger complained about the ways in which art was shown, taught, and written about. The art world — a term he deplored — was too insular, and...
