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Condition: Good. Covers show expected ageing and mild toning; edges lightly worn. Binding tight. Pages clean.
Ways of Seeing remains one of the most influential works of modern visual culture criticism. Based on the landmark BBC television series, Bergers short, incisive essays challenge the traditional assumptions behind European oil painting, advertising imagery, the gaze, and the politics of looking.
With its compact clarity and its deliberately disruptive layout of text alongside imagery, the book teaches readers not what to see, but how their seeing is shaped by power, history, class, and gender. Still assigned widely in art history, media studies, and cultural theory, it is as relevant now as when it first appeared.
John Berger (19262017) was a critic, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work spanned art, politics, and human perception. Winner of the Booker Prize and renowned for the trilogy Into Their Labours, Berger remains one of the foremost interrogators of how images construct meaning and how viewers might reclaim their own interpretive agency.
