Ways of Seeing
Air Date: 1/8/1972
Imdb: tt1302546
Popularity: 4.105
Vote: 7.6/10 (11)
Last Aired: 1/29/1972 12:00:00AM
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Status: Ended
Seasons: 1 - Info
Networks: BBC Two

Overview: John Berger's Ways of Seeing changed the way people think about painting and art criticism. This watershed work shows, through word and image, how what we see is always influenced by a whole host of assumptions concerning the nature of beauty, truth, civilization, form, taste, class and gender. Exploring the layers of meaning within oil paintings, photographs and graphic art, Berger argues that when we see, we are not just looking - we are reading the language of images.