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      • Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. It was broadcast on BBC Two in January 1972 and adapted into a book of the same name.
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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › John_BergerJohn Berger - Wikipedia

    Berger was born on 5 November 1926 [1] in Stoke Newington, London, [2] [3] the first of two children of Miriam and Stanley Berger. [4]His grandfather was from Trieste, now Italy, [5] and his father, Stanley, raised as a non-religious Jew who adopted Catholicism, [6] had been an infantry officer on the Western Front during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross [3] [7] and an OBE.

  3. 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.

  4. Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger [1] and producer Mike Dibb. [2] [3] It was broadcast on BBC Two in January 1972 and adapted into a book of the same name. [4] [5]

  5. Feb 20, 2017 · How John Berger gave us new ways of seeing Hollywood cinema. The late writer and critic rarely dealt directly with film, but his theories about oil painting can help us rebuff a conservative tendency to attribute Hollywood artists’ successes to the studio system itself.

  6. In chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing, Berger, borrowing from the ideas of Walter Benjamin, argues that our ability to reproduce art on a mass scale has fundamentally altered how we encounter it in the world.

  7. As an artist himself, Berger believed that great art should reflect society and that socialism inspired society’s “profoundest expectations” in the 20th century. He published his first novel, A Painter of Our Time, in 1958, which stemmed from his experience living among émigré artists in London.

  8. Dec 3, 2019 · At the start of the first TV episode of Ways of Seeing, John Berger takes a scalpel to Botticelli’s Venus and Mars. The opening beat of the programme is the audio of the incision – the blade’s rough abrasion on canvas – before the soundtrack settles into voiceover.

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